If someone was somehow born, kept alive, and had zero of the five senses (but had an otherwise normal functioning brain). Would they even "know" they were alive?
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I realized I was alive in the womb when God started terrorizing me for fantasizing about dark haired women and I immediately tried to kill myself
There was that girl who was born blind and deaf who didn't know any speech until a nanny took over her schooling. The movie the miracle worker was based on her. She later wrote down about how her thoughts before lesrning any language were so primal. She only knew how to think of warmth
Helen keller, frick I forgot her name
She wasn't born completely deaf. She had some and lost it at a young age. People who are born deaf don't think in sound and people are born blind don't think in vision. Also it's possible Helen Keller was one big hoax and meme.
>neetmaxxing a shame fetish
Absolutely disgusting.
Hellen Keller could communicate with a primitive sign language before she learned "real language," and she could recognize people based on her footsteps. So, I do not buy her claim that she literally was a mindless animal who could not really think before she learned language, especially given what we now know even animals are capable of. Interpreting her charitably, I can only say that she must have been speaking very loosely.
Do you think with your eyes?
Brain is a faculty as well, but one that both process the senses and also functions as a form of pattern recognition layer to recognize the recognized/classified objects thats been trained by the senses.
But absent of the primal physical senses, and lack of information, the brain doesnt grow and cant communicate/form coherent thought/adjust/learn/etc.
Yes, they would still feel things. Gravity, sensations from chemical changes, feelings. Their brain would probably start making stuff up, like colors and things. They would still have the psychology of a human.
Umm no.
Another pure anecdote in the comments relates that a blind girl would “see” in her dreams
I can’t help but wonder what the role of IQ is in all this.
Does a developed psyche possess the ability to “truly” perceive the world in a way others do not?
>Another pure anecdote in the comments relates that a blind girl would “see” in her dreams
No.
>I can’t help but wonder what the role of IQ is in all this.
None.
>Does a developed psyche possess the ability to “truly” perceive the world in a way others do not?
No.
The brain itself doesn't have any sensory abilities as far as I know. It would be extremely tough to do this, but if the nervous system was crippled in a way that allowed the body to be maintained normally, but without feeding any input to the conscious mind, what would it be like?
All those things fall under the sense of touch. Next?
Not the feeling of gravity of chemical sensations and feelings. Next on you.
Put someone on a rollercoaster, their sense of touch won't matter
Humans have..... more senses than five.
How many?
>zero of the five senses
>five senses
if you're not taking away their proprioception then yeah they would have some awareness-of-self