Is consciousness dependent on input to the brain?
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Think about it, if there is no nerve endings to trigger synapses the brain would just sit.
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Basically you're asking if you are a brain in a jar can you still think or have a sense of self
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I'm dumb so don't listen to me but doesn't the brain hallucinate when confronted with like a lack of stimuli? Thinking of deprivation tanks and isolation experiments and such.
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We haven’t even figured out what qualifies as consciousness and what doesn’t. Studying something that’s not clearly defined won’t be easy. Also, we might be thinking about it in the wrong way, asking the wrong questions and using the wrong words.
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Futurama already answered this!
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If you consider dreaming consciousness then no, since thee's no synapses being triggered. This is the part where some expert in the field slaps the confidence out of my mouth
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In general, nature gets rid of stuff that is energy expensive and it doesn’t need.
No sensory means no reason to think so yeah probably.
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Well, you asked a question that doesn't have a definitive answer.
However, nerve endings aren't the end-all be-all of the sensorium. The brain has activity, even when cut off from stimulation via the senses.
We aren't reliant on our bodies for "self*, in other words.
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We probably can't know, and certainly don't know.
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People placed in isolation tanks for long periods have reported that consciousness seemed to become more vivid when deprived of external stimuli but that it was increasingly less grounded. Without real world input consciousness does not shut down it constructs its own simulated input.
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Well i read somewhere that in absence of signals the brain would just gradually become more sensitive until it even responds to things that aren't there, basically hallucinating.
