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 Please answer both the following:

a) Read through Plato's book Timaeus and his view of the cosmos.

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html

https://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/timaeus.htm

HINT: Do not read the entire work, just skim through it to find something of interest to you. 

Discuss: How does he structure it and how does it relate to his separation of the two realms?

b) View the videos: 1) 'Clay-mation Allegory of the Cave' available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM 

and 'Matrix and the Allegory of the Cave' available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNMZEDOBrM&feature=related.

Discuss:  How does Plato's analogy of the cave relate to the film Matrix? 

Answer 2 parts for 250-350 words