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I would. It would be the worst 48 hours of my life especially since I'm claustrophobic but 48 hours are really not that long in the grand scheme of things. Better than working for 15+ years for the same amount.
In certain circumstances 10 seconds can be an eternity.
It can feel like an eternity in the moment, but it's still just ten seconds.
Unless you're trapped at the horizon of a black hole but I don't think that's really relevant in this conversation
Which matters more in this scenario, actual reality or your perception of it?
I've tripped balls where the concept of time was torn asunder. Wasn't a great time, but time still passed by, and my mind didn't "break" or whatever it is people believe will happen.
You can't actually experience a lifetime in those moments of eternity.
There are absolutely experiences that will permanently traumatize a human mind which take less than 10 seconds.
The circumstances described by the OP are worse than you think. Minutes would be fine, hours would progress from misery to torture fairly quickly. Those of us saying it’s not worth it aren’t saying it because we don’t want a million bucks, we just value our sanity and understand how life-ruiningly horrible it would be.
You're just asserting things without evidence or reason.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/donald-o-hebb-effects-extreme-isolation/
Most people in voluntary isolation (with sensory deprivation too!) will quit after a couple of days. I don't know what $20 a day amounts to in today's money, but it ain't a million.
Well, in your study they still got to eat, drink, and walk to the bathroom. They had rooms, beds, and tables, and they were fed by humans. They could stop at any time. OP’s scenario has none of that; you’re in an uncomfortable wooden box with no room to move for 48 hours.
I couldn’t find any studies that extreme, and maybe you’re right that it might be tolerable for some, but I’m pretty sure I’d come out of that box broken in a bad way.
They were sensory deprived to an extreme extent. It doesn't matter that there are people around if you can't see them, can't hear them, can't feel them. You're severely downplaying the effect of that to make the box seem worse.
In the box, you can stimulate your hearing so you won't get auditory hallucinations. You can also feel things and tap the side of the box, etc. I assume it's dark, so you may get some visual hallucinations. I'm not sure how darkness affects that. It's manageable, though.
Isolation is torture when it's a very long or even indeterminate duration. Two days is a duration that most people can endure, as per the experiment. You know that going in and can prepare yourself mentally.
I've endured severe pain, I've endured panic attacks, and I've endured bad trips without time and a fractured reality. I don't know what kind of life you've led, but my experience tells me that while two days in a box is absolutely going to be a miserable experience, it will quickly be forgotten.
Edit: And with a million bucks, I can pay for a good therapist, which I need regardless.