[HN Gopher] Michel Siffre: This man spent months alone undergrou...
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       Michel Siffre: This man spent months alone underground - and it
       warped his mind
        
       Author : Anon84
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2026-01-01 18:07 UTC (6 days ago)
        
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       | Teknomadix wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/XTmFN
        
       | gHosts wrote:
       | Arguably a single datapoint doesn't allow you to discern which
       | caused what....
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       | Did being alone underground for months warp his mind...?
       | 
       | Or do you have to be pretty bent to start with to do what every
       | non-warped person doesn't do, because they can foresee it would
       | really suck....
        
         | vanderZwan wrote:
         | While you raise a valid point, I think we should also be
         | careful to not accidentally apply so-called "question
         | substitution" here: whether or not his mind already was
         | "warped" compared to the norm is a different question from
         | whether or not it was warped before _and did not warp any
         | further_.
         | 
         | To me it seems pretty difficult to argue that the time spent
         | underground did not affect his mind, regardless of the state it
         | was in before.
        
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