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If you lost all your senses would you still be conscious?
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:09 am
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:09 am
Has anyone ever wondered about this? Lets say you become a deaf-mute, blind, no sense of smell/taste person and also, you somehow lose your sense of touch? Would you still be conscious? would your brain register anything, i guess your memories of previous events would still be there, but would you even be able to make new memories if no new inputs are coming in?
What say the OT?
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Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:09 am to 844_Tiger
Didn't Metallica write a song about this?
This post was edited on 6/17/26 at 10:10 am
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:12 am to 844_Tiger
That's nonsense.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:12 am to BestBanker
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:13 am to BestBanker
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That's nonsense.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:15 am to BestBanker
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That's nonsense.
Winner!
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:17 am to 844_Tiger
Consciousness isn't simply the sum of your senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, plus proprioception/balance, interoception like hunger or heartbeat, etc.). It's more about the brain's capacity for subjective experience—the "what it's like" to be you, including thoughts, emotions, self-awareness, or even a bare sense of existence. Senses provide content (data about the world and body), but the machinery for awareness runs on intrinsic brain activity.
This post was edited on 6/17/26 at 10:18 am
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:17 am to 844_Tiger
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Would you still be conscious?
I mean your brain is still on and you can still breathe right? It'd be the most miserable existence ever but I don't know why you'd pass out unconsious just as a result of not being able to hear/see/touch/taste/smell. I guess you'd just sit there not really doing anything ha.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:22 am to 844_Tiger
I’ve never read it but isn’t Johnny Got His Gun basically a story of this?
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:22 am to 844_Tiger
quote:
Has anyone ever wondered about this? Lets say you become a deaf-mute, blind, no sense of smell/taste person and also, you somehow lose your sense of touch? Would you still be conscious? would your brain register anything, i guess your memories of previous events would still be there, but would you even be able to make new memories if no new inputs are coming in?
What say the OT?
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Posted on 6/17/26 at 10:46 am to Snipe
the older I've gotten the more i think about Metallica's song one. I could not imagine being deaf bling and a quadriplegic. never knowing if it was day or night never communicating with anyone. just alone with your thoughts and crying out to God for death. It sounds absolutely brutal
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:04 am to m2pro
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It's more about the brain's capacity for subjective experience—the "what it's like" to be you, including thoughts, emotions, self-awareness, or even a bare sense of existence.
Good input baw!
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:06 am to WG_Dawg
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I guess you'd just sit there not really doing anything ha.
Maybe reminisce about all the good times you've had, all the good beer you've drank and about the 2019 LSU championship (not in your case :)
But yes, this existence would be miserable.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:09 am to 844_Tiger
quote:FIFY
If you lost all your sinuses would you still be conscientious?
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:11 am to 844_Tiger
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If you lost all your senses would you still be conscious?
Basically, it's what you get with sensory deprivation tanks:
Just don't combine it with psychedelic drugs, or you wind up with Altered States:
This post was edited on 6/17/26 at 11:12 am
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:18 am to BRich
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Basically, it's what you get with sensory deprivation tanks:
I've tried those in the past, you still have some sensory feedback from your skin, the water temperature or the feel of the liquid on the surface of your skin, the smell of the water, etc.
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Just don't combine it with psychedelic drugs, or you wind up with Altered States:
Don't threaten me with a good time
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:19 am to 844_Tiger
Perhaps that is why the soul or conscious agents....whatever.... choose to inhabit these meat suits.
Posted on 6/17/26 at 11:43 am to 844_Tiger
Awareness is not dependent on senses nor is cognitive function (thinking, decision making, problem solving, etc) or emotions (happy, sad, angry) (Amygdala) or even physical movement.
Heck, occipital lobe may still work even if eyes and optic nerve do not. Assuming musculoskeletal-skeletal in tact, movement still in play.
Brain would still be busy with physical movement and regulating other systems (digestion, cardio (eg, heart rate, blood pressure), endocrine (eg. body temp), reproductive (eg, menstrual cycle), etc).
Could dream.
Could pray / think.
Could move.
Could be angry or upset (Amygdala)
Could not interpret or respond to environment.
Like Sound of Silence (song), people hearing without listening, people singing without speaking. Or similar.
Heck, occipital lobe may still work even if eyes and optic nerve do not. Assuming musculoskeletal-skeletal in tact, movement still in play.
Brain would still be busy with physical movement and regulating other systems (digestion, cardio (eg, heart rate, blood pressure), endocrine (eg. body temp), reproductive (eg, menstrual cycle), etc).
Could dream.
Could pray / think.
Could move.
Could be angry or upset (Amygdala)
Could not interpret or respond to environment.
Like Sound of Silence (song), people hearing without listening, people singing without speaking. Or similar.
This post was edited on 6/17/26 at 11:48 am
Posted on 6/17/26 at 12:13 pm to 844_Tiger
Just thinking about being in that state gives me the heebie jeebies 
Posted on 6/17/26 at 12:29 pm to 844_Tiger
Bro this is some crazy shite, I was literally thinking about this exact thing in the shower this morning. I decided the only thing your mind could do would be to think about the past or future, because you'd have no experience of the present moment for your brain to process.
Without new inputs, I think you'd start hallucinating because your brain would keep trying to tell a story.
Without new inputs, I think you'd start hallucinating because your brain would keep trying to tell a story.
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