Introspection is how responsibility

A student asked: "our eyes with the long, why not make two eyes to see, may soon see their appearance, need not worry about teeth have spinach crumbs, don't worry about her mouth had meal flocks? This is good question, many animals in the eyes of a long on both sides, at least it see of range, not like the human brain, not an eye, after the assassination all don't know is how dead. Indeed, as the master said," people suffer from don't know ". Our eyes see the purpose of evolution is out, "penetrative and not paid," see others face little freckles, but can't see his face the whelk. To this end, the invention a mirror, "bronze as mirror can is YiRenWeiJing dresses, can know, but with the gain and loss of" mirror, human beings have really after you have a perfect?

In psychology has had a very interesting experiment, use a mirror to test animals know not to know what call yourself.

The experimenter first a mirror in chimpanzees in the cage, ten days later, chimpanzees in it, will anesthesia forehead point a odourless tasteless red dot. In chimpanzees, the mirror is not wake up before them in, chimpanzees will not to touch their forehead, said the red dot is indeed no smelly dull, but when the mirror in the cage, a see chimpanzees in the mirror "immediately", widely use a hand to touch your forehead, and hard to rub, said it know yourself, but in the mirror is know it is not the red dot.

If omit the first step, no let chimpanzees to mirror first with, then they although see in the mirror of their own have red dot, but won't use a hand to feel, because no old self can be comparing no judgment. Without comparison is not complaining, he won't force to not willing to put on the adornment of rub off.

This experiment was a surprise, when a person do not know what is before, had acted upon, add more, reduced, and won't fight. But once the photographs a mirror, know oneself is what kind, so a change of the independent would immediately find, and this awareness appearing, irreversible, already know that can't be pretended not to know, it will always see in front of a mirror, so have self-knowledge is very important.

Socrates said, not a review of life is not worth living.

Introspection is not only know what to do, the most important is it understand their real through intention; Plato further, introspection were intended to be responsibility, not the ability of introspection not worthy person, only through self introspection to achieve virtue and morality.