The Timaeus: Ontology and Cognition

Re-reading the Timaeus, I feel Plato's tactile sensorimotor mindset feels very similar to Bergson's tactile metaphors in the Duration chapter in Time and Free Will. But then I feel a similar connection between various speculative ontologies... Plato, Spinoza's Ethics Ch. 2, Bergson, Whitehead's P.R., Simondon and then Einstein and I feel that they all present very similar conceptions, or at least, that given the scientific knowledge of the various ages, they seem to present very similar ontological outlooks. Add to this Lakoff's cognitive ideas and I end up thinking that the speculative direction in philosophy is a continuation of this tactile sensorimotor mindset that is put forth in the Timaeus. Lakoff would posit this as the inevitably human conception of reality because our cognitive make up cannot do otherwise except see the world in this way. Cognition is a result of the metaphors the brain and the body generate in order to create epistemological sense, or duration (or something to that effect). Whitehead says that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato; perhaps it is inevitable.