He was the first to demonstrate that our lives are open to philosophy at all times and in every aspect, while experiencing every emotion, and in each and every activity.” “He practiced philosophy while joking around and drinking and serving on military campaigns and hanging around the marketplace with some of his students, and finally, even while under arrest and drinking the hemlock. As Plutarch observed, “Socrates did not set up desks for his students, sit in a teacher’s chair, or reserve a prearranged time for lecturing and walking with his pupils.” On the contrary. What a sad, ironic fate for something that traces its roots back to just about everywhere but the classroom. Which is why far too many philosophy books, as Nietchze said, feel like words are being used to argue about words.
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Our modern philosophers debate whether we’re living in a computer simulation or if reality is anything but a hallucination or how to respond to the so-called “Trolley Problem” or whether the ship of Theseus, if every single plank were replaced, would or wouldn’t be a fundamentally different ship.
It is not thought to be for, as Epictetus said, “the lovers of wisdom” (Philosophy comes from Greek philosophia, literally “love of wisdom”), but instead for geniuses, people who love puzzling over paradoxes and riddles, for asking questions without answers. Because philosophy today is not thought of as something someone can use, but instead a mostly academic pursuit, an abstraction too big for us ordinary people to comprehend. The mere mention of the word makes us bored or intimidated. The results indicate that interpersonal gazing in dyads can be an effective tool for studying experimentally-induced dissociative symptoms and hallucinatory-like apparitions.If the word “Stoic” has been totally misunderstood in the English language, as we talked about the other day), then it must be said that as a concept, “philosophy” has also been perverted.
These phenomena may explain psychodynamic projections of the subject׳s unconscious meanings into the other׳s face. Strange-face apparitions may characterize the rebound to "reality" (perceptual reality caused by external stimulus and hallucinatory reality caused by internal input) from a dissociative state induced by sensory deprivation. These results indicate that dissociative symptoms and hallucinatory phenomena during interpersonal-gazing under low illumination can involve different processes. Strange-face apparitions were non-correlated with dissociation and dysmorphia. Dissociative symptoms and face dysmorphia were correlated. Results indicate dissociative symptoms, dysmorphic face perceptions, and hallucination-like strange-face apparitions. Interpersonal gazing in dyads, when the two individuals in the dyad stare at each other in the eyes, is investigated in 20 healthy young individuals at low illumination for 10-min. More interesting were the answers given regarding hallucinations-90 percent of the paired volunteers reported seeing changes to the face of the person they were staring at, deformations that led to morphing-in many instances into images of a monster, their own face, or even the face of a relative.Ĭaputo is not able to explain why the hallucinations occurred, but suggests it was likely due to sensory deprivation-he believes it is possible that they might happen as the brain snaps back to reality after zoning out and the mind projects subconscious thoughts onto the face of the other person.ĭissociation and hallucinations in dyads engaged through interpersonal gazing, Psychiatry Research, August 30, 2015.
In looking at the answers, Caputo found that the people in the paired groups reported more disassociation symptoms that those in the control group, such as a loss of connection with reality, and changes in sound or color perception and complained of time dragging on. Afterwards, all of the volunteers from both groups were given questionnaires which they were asked to fill out. Neither group was told the nature of the experiment. The other group was paired up and the pairs were asked to stare, emotionless, into each others' eyes for ten minutes, also in a dimly lit room, to enhance facial features. The volunteers were divided into two groups one served as the control and was asked to stare at a wall for ten minutes in a dimly lit room. Wondering what might happen if two people stared into each other's eyes for a long period of time, he enlisted the assistance of 40 healthy young volunteers. Prior research has found that people tend to experience odd sensations when staring at things for a long period of time-people staring at dots on a wall for example, have reported feelings of disassociation, and those staring at their own faces in a mirror reported minor hallucinations.
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