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re: If you lost all your senses would you still be conscious?
Posted on 6/17/26 at 1:47 pm to Keith13
Posted on 6/17/26 at 1:47 pm to Keith13
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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
I posted it, and it's likely my favorite Metallica song (with For whom the bell tolls being a close 2nd).
However, I can hardly listen to it. It a subject that makes me uncomfortable to think about (which I think is the intention...)
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Posted on 6/17/26 at 4:30 pm to Stonehog
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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.
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.
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.
This post was edited on 6/17/26 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 6/17/26 at 4:39 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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Could be angry or upset (Amygdala)
I thought that was the medulla oblongata.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:04 am to 844_Tiger
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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.
Yes, I saw a video of one theory that we dream so our optic nerve will be active during sleep when it has no exterior inputs.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:07 am to Stonehog
quote:I dream to comparison shop.
Yes, I saw a video of one theory that we dream so our optic nerve will be active during sleep when it has no exterior inputs.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:17 am to 844_Tiger
Don’t know but you probably could play some mean pinball.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:17 am to 844_Tiger
You can still get high, so there’s that.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:20 am to 844_Tiger
Accordingly to Helen Keller you become a filthy communist.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:25 am to The Boat
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Accordingly to Helen Keller
I'm I the only one that finds her story a bit of a stretch?
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:37 am to Bestbank Tiger
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I thought that was the medulla oblongata.
Emotions…Limbic system.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:40 am to Uroblast
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you probably could play some mean pinball.
like that deaf, dumb and blind kid
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:48 am to 844_Tiger
Been there, done that.
Yes, you are alive with only your own thoughts. You're essentially just a brain with no input from any of your senses, might as well be a brain in a jar. Those senses include "feel" btw.........you don't know if you're in the grave or laying on a bed. (Also includes sense of time, hard to explain).
Part of the dying process. An unpleasant experience.
Yes, you are alive with only your own thoughts. You're essentially just a brain with no input from any of your senses, might as well be a brain in a jar. Those senses include "feel" btw.........you don't know if you're in the grave or laying on a bed. (Also includes sense of time, hard to explain).
Part of the dying process. An unpleasant experience.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 8:52 am to jeffsdad
wat??Posted on 6/18/26 at 11:15 am to jeffsdad
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Part of the dying process. An unpleasant experience.
what's the afterlife like?
Posted on 6/18/26 at 11:49 am to 844_Tiger
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"Cogito, ergo sum."
Posted on 6/18/26 at 12:03 pm to Rabby
CIA and KGB did a lot of simulations and torture in this way and found a lot of psychosis as a result. Really fuks with your mind.
Now imagine what this would be like if the condition existed from birth.
Now imagine what this would be like if the condition existed from birth.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 1:49 pm to 844_Tiger
Didn't quite make it that far.
Posted on 6/18/26 at 2:18 pm to 844_Tiger
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If you lost all your senses would you still be conscious?
As far as I am aware, my belly has never been unconscious
Posted on 6/18/26 at 5:21 pm to jeffsdad
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Didn't quite make it that far.
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