In his dialogue “Phaedo”, Plato argues that in order to gain wisdom, you must use only your mind, no senses, because your body muddles the mind. He writes: “ Or have you ever grasped them with any of your bodily senses? I am speaking of all the things such as Bigness, Health, Strength, and, in a word, the reality of all other things, that which each of them essentially is. Is what is most true in them contemplated through the body, or is this the position: Whoever of us prepares himself best and most accurately to grasp that thing which he is investigating will come closest to the knowledge of it? Obviously. Then he will do this most perfectly who approaches the object with thought alone, without associating any sight with his thought, or