What happens over time to a person that is left in solitude without any human contact?

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They would probably go out of their mind and become enlightened.

Alternatively, they would go into their mind and become crazy.

This largely depends on whether they abandon hope and surrender to the solitude, or begin to create and talk to imaginary friends, so that they don’t have to go through it, emotionally. For some people that are not prone to doing this, staying in prolonged solitude is enough to reach the realization.