Locked-in Syndrome and an Epistemology of Lockdown

Abstract

This paper explores the conceptual resemblances and metaphorical relation, between the medical condition known as locked-in syndrome and the state of being in lockdown or quarantine. These parallelisms will be examined under the lens of epistemology, or the philosophical study of knowledge. In particular I will use locked-in syndrome as a metaphor for our lockdown situation using the concepts of epistemic bubbles and echo chambers.