Cross Examination
LOCKED-IN SYNDROME We are all prisoners of perceptions. Plato's Allegory of the Cave , highlights to us how we can grasp, think and talk about the concept of our observations, but how concepts differ from what the reality of the concept actually is. And as our perceptions are purely constructs of the mind, it follows that our perceptions are unique to us and to us alone. If the above statement takes you around in circles, the statement has served its purpose: to push you the reader, to 'think'. Not merely 'thinking' as we loosely believe the term to be used, ie. referencing 'pre-learned' memorised information, recalling the information as a confirmed acknowledgement that we've already covered this topic, then quickly moving on, – but actual 'thinking' with reasoning and cross-examination of the information we seek to understand, as in the Socratic method . It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accep...