Prisoner In The Desert Of Science
Look to comprise the universe of science without expanding your human exploration perimeter beyond the inadmissible borderline.
The precision of the measurement of a perimeter depends on the methods and instruments used, which are chosen based on the desired precision and the time associated with it. But when it comes to man, it’s hard to estimate, exploit and understand the "field"; it’s a challenge for anyone who plunges into the lands of science, the measurement of character’s angles is also needed because they modify throughout the stages of life.
Science is the impact of technology on life, reality and power. Thus, the researcher can use in order to support his experiments one of the following methods. The determinist method, which has a negative impact over functional status. Or the deep method which sensitizes up to the borderline or even beyond it, increasing the conscience’s pulsation.
Doctor Frederick Chilton picks the middle way: conditioning the main study subject by isolating him of any contact with the exterior world. A subtle terror which bypasses the Chinese drop through its simplicity, causing that inner necessity to communicate every thought or feeling. Loneliness produces supreme suffering. And it is filled only through dialogue.
The greatest temptation of a scientist is to be considered a miracle of nature through his very own experience of intervening in the natural course of the world, fort this being capable of giving up anything or any being that is of no use to him.
Doctor Chilton wants to make new discoveries, to bring new details about the complexity of the human factor. Under the control of his immense passion to research the man’s hidden corners, he submits Hannibal Lecter to the repeated attempt to outdo himself in a very narrow frame. He wants, maybe, to recreate human nature based on the spectacular result of measuring a non-determinist system. And emit new theories. But in order to bring to light scientific treasures, Chilton has to completely dedicate himself to his crazy temptation of destabilizing the primary structure of his patient.
As the great erudite Richard Bentley wanted to use "Principia" in order to prove divine intervention in the course of things, Dr. Chilton wants to use the knowledge he acquired from observing Hannibal Lecter in order to prove a new dimension of human nature, subject to the balance disruption between reason and emotion. Then, he is left only with getting rid of his “guinea pig”.
Do you explore your inner world under the motto “Stay Alive”, adding the “True” value to the underlying condition of your representation on the sinuous route of building a strong character?
But Hannibal Lecter, the old lab rat, resistant to any venom, always reacts unpredictably. Nobody can experiment his weaknesses, he doesn’t give up in front of any hostile treatment. Nobody can stick a plastic nail in the steel carcass of his brilliant mind, no matter how flexible it would be. And that because the plans stored in his mind with countless control instructions and advanced update commands are hardly changeable.
In the case of Hannibal no personality deviations can be registered. And the search functions "VLOOKUP", HLOOKUP and "MATCH", at the level of thoughts, emotions and experiences, as investigative methods and detailed observance, are hardly accessible to a researcher.
Much less in the case of Doctor Frederick Chilton. Because his exuberant desire, that would require hundreds of hours of researches, can’t overcome the altitude of thousands of attempts to re-project the human being’s thoughts that Hannibal Lecter has already reached.
The highest level of success for Hannibal, with respect to his persuasion ability, is like an inaccessible mountain for most mountain climbers. And this Great Eyry that only very few psychologists can reach is, to say so, Doctor Chilton’s inaccessible. This uncomfortable mountain climber, with no ropes, is completely neglected by the conqueror of the highest peaks.
There is a limit in the precision with which any measurement is made, according to the operator’s skill. Especially when the latter misses the creation drive of the genius who, because of self-knowledge and deep experience doesn’t need to isolate a foreign mind in order to comprise the universe of science.
Do you experience professional fulfillment on more advanced “human subjects”, especially when you are at the forefront of a phenomenon that is not direct, but mediated by a view over the “whole”?
The effect of using function and authority on an individual, especially on his extraordinary potential to provide new useful conclusive evidence, that are pertinent to the cause you serve (reaching perfection in leadership), is not consistent throughout its trajectory to the target during the entire evolutionary cycle.
Trying to develop a new way of thinking, exploring the human factor as a huge challenge, won’t guarantee you a way out of the labyrinth of contradictions in which you will surely get lost.
Do you intend to use the knowledge you acquired from observing man, which is subject only to his own authority, in order to prove a new dimension of human nature? If yes, then firstly take into account "the unpredictable", the inaccurate map of the way in which he reacts.
Raw matter, the primordial substance of your whole research activity, Man, can produce an excess of conclusions which prove themselves hard to assimilate. Or he can create certain ambiguities which place you in an area of uncertainty. So, look to comprise the universe of science without expanding your human exploration perimeter beyond the admissible borderline.
Because it might be that in the wish to achieve professional fulfillment, making experiments on "human subjects" with a complicated structure as experience and model of thinking to get stuck in a routine of analysis and information grinding. An unforeseen dynamic of expansion towards some horizons as alluring as they are obscure and deceiving.
A view over the “whole” is formed by the temptation to conquer the highest peaks of science in terms of a psychological intervention on man in an attempt to turn him into a passive instrument in the hands of an Almighty God.
Prisoner In The Desert Of Science is what a leader becomes in his desire to reach special performances digs his toes in the dissection of the "human factor" taken as individual entity. Thus loosing sight of the "human factor" as collective entity. Subsequently, instead of minimizing the risk of unwanted effects, he remains captive of a research that carries him further away from the initial purpose.
* Note: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
