re: If you lost all your senses would you still be conscious?

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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.

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That is what I'm thinking, although M2Pro and Every Day is Saturday made some good comments on how consciousness is not just sensory inputs, i suppose that you would still feel a lot of effects from things like acceleration ( the fluid in your ears) changes in heart rate when there are spikes in adrenaline from the adrenal glands etc.
I thought it would be an interesting thought experiment to see how many senses you would take away before its all lights out? Also that is why I'm not a 100% convinced that the whole brain in a vat thing would work without inputs from the rest of the nervous system, after all your brain doesn't have sensory inputs, you can poke a brain and doesn't "feel" anything. All you may have would be your memories.

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I think you'd start hallucinating because your brain would keep trying to tell a story.

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This is an excellent point, maybe that is why we dream? the brain isn't getting inputs and its starts making up stories to keep itself entertained? or remind itself that its not dead?, LOL.