How would you react?

Question

If you woke up tomorrow. You were totally isolated for a thousand miles in all directions from every form of life including plants, animals, insects, and humans. You know nothing of technology, life, your orgins, what you are, where you came from or how you came to exist? What do you suppose your logical series of actions, but more pointedly, what questions would you ask yourself? After the first moments, the first months, and the first decade?

This is kind of a serious question for me. So if there is any sociological titans out there, please feel free to conjecture?

Answer 1

I'd ask myself, what is this place? Is there anyone like me out there? What is my purpose?
Why am I here? I suppose I'd walk until I found something different out there like an ocean, trees, plants, another human. I'd sleep when I was sleepy, eat? drink? I'd continue to walk and search until I found it. Otherwise I'd die.

Answer 2

I would react as if I was just born here. I wouldn't know of technology, animals, insects, plants, or my life. That would be MY life. A very very very dull one. I'd be a complete vegetable. I wouldn't know how other people, i wouldn't know of technology or food, maybe jsut the feeling in my stomach. I would probably wonder why I feel this way, why I feel groggy, and eventually die off when science kicks in. I would think that this was my universe and let my imagination tell me what is living beside myself. Unless I wonder 1000 miles onto a place with plants and animals and other forms of life. Interesting inquiry.

Answer 3

If you were totally isolated from every form of life, you would be unable to survive. Your body needs sustanance..........food and water. With no meat or vegetation, what would you sustain your body with?

People survived just fine before technology, so that's not the problem. In fact, people invented technology...........so that would come with time, as long as you can survive.

Along with life I believe comes the natural instinct of survival. Now, you didn't say there is no technology available.............you just said you know nothing of technology. In the survival mode, you would look for a way to sustain yourself. In your search of sustanance, you best find and figure out how to use transportation of some sort to get you that 1000 miles pretty quickly so that you can eat. Without food you won't last those months or decades to ask yourself anything.

Now, if you're looking for answers as to what a person would do with no socialization whatsoever (but he doesn't have to worry about survival), I don't think a person could last long as the only life form. As the one and only life form in existance (as far as he knows because he doesn't know anything of life, his origins, what he is, or where he came from or how he came to exist) I believe his mind and his body would wither and die. We have always been a social society, and we give each other reason to live and achieve. By yourself, you would have no reason..............no purpose.

There have actually been studies done on newborn orphan babies............I can't tell what country that took place in, or when, and I think it's absolutely appauling that anyone, anywhere did it..........but I remember reading about it and the results. They divided the babies into two groups. One group they showed affection to...............they held those babies, played with them, talked to them, and gave them attention besides physically caring for them. The other group they only physically sustained..........changed their diaper, fed them, but did not hold them, play with them, talk to them, or give them any attention. They left them in their cribs by themselves. The babies who got no attention or affection all died. The ones that got the attention and affection lived and did fine. That's a pretty powerful statement as to what we need out of life.

Answer 4

More than likely instinct would kick in... You would begin by looking for food shelter and so forth.

After a while assuming these things were all plentiful or not needed for some reason not described in your question, psychologically you would behave as an animal (even though technically humans are no different than most animals). Without human interaction you would have no need for speech or communication and likely no internal dialog since internal dialog is based on speech.

You would begin to learn more animalistic approaches and likely become very bored creating your own ideas for entertainment as many animals do in similar situations. You may eventually begin wandering in search of companionship (most likely for the instinctual intent of procreation).

Likely you would never develop the questions you speak of, no questions would come to mind since you have no concept of communication or anyone to answer them. The idea would never even develop without a conduit.

Overall you would resort to the most basic instincts including food, water, shelter, sex (procreation), and entertainment. All the things a typical animal would resort to when not socialized. More than likely if you ever did meant another animal you would react very aggressively and fearful since the concept of any life by itself would be completely foreign.

Answer 5

What you think would not matter. Here is what you asked..."You know nothing of technology, life, your orgins, what you are, where you came from or how you came to exist?"

Is this not death? It certainly is not life. What I would think doesn't matter, i wouldn't know anything to think about. Cognitive thought and reasoning is based on expeiriences. Remember "I think ,therefor I am." that only is applicable to those with events to go back and ponder.

Answer 6

If I woke up tomorrow and didn't know who I was, where I was or anything else how would I know what to ask myself to find out anything, like, where do I go, who am I, what is my sole reason of existence? How would I know vocabulary to speak or ask myself anything? If I'm to be a total idiot then I guess I would stay put and die.

Answer 7

I'd probably be like that whale in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Otherwise, I honestly don't know how I'd react because everything I am is because I know my origins, etc. But luckly I wouldn't have to worry about it for more than a few days since I'd be dead with nothing to eat.

Answer 8

me i would be scared out of my right mind and ask my self how did i get here how can i survive am ii going to die here without finishing a job in college and after that i would look around and probably faint or fall asleep.

Answer 9

i will kill my self, if there is no water, food with in 1000 miles and i don't have any technology

Answer 10

if i woke up and new nothing of life in a place were no other visisble life was .
i dont think i would think i think that place is called purgatory.