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There exist people who voluntarily live in some form of solitary confinement, like hermits and some types of monastic orders - very few though. You may well be

There exist people who voluntarily live in some form of solitary confinement, like hermits and some types of monastic orders - very few though. You may well be one of the edge cases of humanity that would be ok with it. Are you asking if that is possible, or if everyone is like that? Because yes, you could actually be like that, and no, most people aren't like that.

wolfgke 9y ago
> There exist people who voluntarily live in some form of solitary confinement, like hermits and some types of monastic orders - very few though. You may well be one of the edge cases of humanity that would be ok with it. It is quite plausible that in a different time I would have lived such a life. Sometimes I think about the question what the analogue of such a life would be in an extremely technology-pervaded science-fiction society (think for example cyberpunk or cypherpunk), e.g. how people can "leave" society without leaving all the technology that comes with it. :-) > Are you asking if that is possible, or if everyone is like that? Because yes, you could actually be like that, and no, most people aren't like that. I am asking what the problems are that "normal" people have with such a life. I am talking about the psychological problems. Other posters here have very plausibly explained to me how other circumstances of jails that accompany solitary confinement can plausibly explain lots of psychological problems of solitary confinement. But I still cannot imagine how being alone per se can cause you serious psychological trouble (I would describe this at most as "inconvenient"): As I already wrote this does not contradict that I accept that being alone for such a long problem can easily cause problems for reintegration into society after the jail time.

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There exist people who voluntarily live in some form of solitary confinement, like hermits and some types of monastic orders - very few though. You may well be

by newfoundglory 9y ago

wolfgke 9y ago
> There exist people who voluntarily live in some form of solitary confinement, like hermits and some types of monastic orders - very few though. You may well be one of the edge cases of humanity that would be ok with it. It is quite plausible that in a different time I would have lived such a life. Sometimes I think about the question what the analogue of such a life would be in an extremely technology-pervaded science-fiction society (think for example cyberpunk or cypherpunk), e.g. how people can "leave" society without leaving all the technology that comes with it. :-) > Are you asking if that is possible, or if everyone is like that? Because yes, you could actually be like that, and no, most people aren't like that. I am asking what the problems are that "normal" people have with such a life. I am talking about the psychological problems. Other posters here have very plausibly explained to me how other circumstances of jails that accompany solitary confinement can plausibly explain lots of psychological problems of solitary confinement. But I still cannot imagine how being alone per se can cause you serious psychological trouble (I would describe this at most as "inconvenient"): As I already wrote this does not contradict that I accept that being alone for such a long problem can easily cause problems for reintegration into society after the jail time.