Impact of Philosophy

The following is an excerpt from an investigatory project, understanding the relevance of philosophy and its insight into zoomers

Across this investigatory project, in order to study the impact of philosophy, we'll broadly categorize the perception of the subject from a mental and physical basis. The mental quarters are the thoughts, ideas, ideologies, and opinions gathered over time in a person or can also be stated as how self-aware, conscious, self introspective the person is; and the physical realm is the one which we all are familiar with and has interaction on a daily basis, its science and logic-oriented (conclusivity) side of things. In a way, that is what the whole philosophical province is directing its objective towards; The ability to construct, observe, understand, analyze, and the mental fortitude of one's own mind. Does the subject's mental quarters determine their physical actualities or vice-versa? The more subjective and opinionated the dialogue the more mental inclination and, the more objective and justifiable the dialogue - the more physically inclined (in other words lacking philosophical insight).

One of the most important things which I want to spread through this project is to give the subjects of this experiment an experience where they explore the ability to discharge the autopilot function of their mental faculties and actually drive and question their conscious self, at least for once. This humble opportunity to avail a positive paradigm shift in people's views would make a huge difference for me as well as the participants.

Coming to the interviews, all the participants were kind enough to take part in this introspective journey. The response received from their side was good, they understood the intention of the questions. Confronting such conversations is not an easy choice if you are new to them, as most of them were, but were equally intrigued.

Now to the actual motive of these interviews, to check how this generation's balancing of the mental and physical realms is structured. As expected, most of the answers I received felt derived from the perspective of concluding things. This could be because of how our social institutions are deliberately muting our abstract thinking, or as simple as, that I am just expecting more from this generation. But I don't believe the latter to be true, it'd just be the shortsighted way of looking at things.

Looking over responses from particular topics, when it came to questions around ethics, the responses were more or less similar. Again it could be because of the point I had brought up earlier about institutions. questions around meaning were the most intriguing. It fortifies the fact that humans when it comes to thoughts and emotions are as unique as they could get, and also these responses felt the least manipulated by the institutions.

And now the last theme is existentialism, this subject is supposed to make you feel discomfort, but the charm is to accept the discomfort. But none of the participants truly embraced the discomfort provided by the questions.

Finally, I am just over the moon over the fact that I got the opportunity to do this project, spread the idea of philosophy, and the idea to have a look inside yourself.

My interviewing experience with all the subjects from the experiment was as expected as well as surprising. The hypothesis I had derived before the interviews were more or less accurate. And Yes, the main purpose which I had held for this experiment was fulfilled, and all the subjects were kind enough to open themselves up.

The complete interview process was in three major sections,

First, everything was kept simple. Its objective was to open the participant towards the upcoming questions and to themselves as well.

It also helped me know about their thought processes and expectation from this interview.

In the Second, the subjects were asked questions related to existentialism, the intention being, to make them self-introspective and for me to find an emotional connection to get to know them better. The questions presented the subjects' hypothetical physical realm-related situations, for which they had to access their mental quarters. Which later helped me understand how well they maintained their mental quarters and how much time they spent there. Up till here, all the answers were close enough to what I expected them to be.

Lastly, the Third Section gave me actual insight into my subjects, as all the answers until now went as expected, maybe because these were the questions that were the most subjective, each answer being as unique as the person. But the purpose of these thought experiments was served, which was to understand their access and utilize their mental quarters.