What would happen to a mind without the senses?

[Amaryllis 163]

What do you think would happen to your mind if you lost all of your senses?

 

 

I think over time the mind will repeatedly think and calculate until it finds its reasons for every thought and wonders it had and come to a conclusion.

Without new information coming in, the brain will have everything set over time. Thinking and thoughts will be satisfied and all will fade.

All activity of who we are will soon be gone as we fell into an everlasting sleep. The mind will eventually disappear because there would be no more purpose to its existence as it is complete.  

I hope you understand what I just said, because I couldn't describe it well.. Ha...    

 

 

What is your opinion? 

Edited January 25, 2015 by Amaryllis

[Denim&Venöm 19,270]

Probably soemthing like this

 

[Red Cedar 1,408]

I think general consensus is that any mind totally deprived of stimuli would go insane.

[silvadel 1,393]

Total sensory depervation does horrible things to one.  It would be hard to contemplate just how bad being conscious as say a statue would be over the course of weeks or months or years.

[Gearbox10mm 794]

 

No sight, smell, taste, sound or touch. So basically a conscious coma? In the short time it would take you to die you would quickly go insane and death would be welcomed.

[silvadel 1,393]

Death would be welcomed but always just out of reach... The hours would stretch into days and your silent screams would go unanswered.

[SCS 7,537]

This is a very interesting idea. If someone was able to survive under such conditions their mind might begin to evolve in a very abstract and metaphysical way. I feel that their mind would likely become something we've never seen before.

[Plume 922]

The birth of something new, terrifying, and possibly revolutionary.

[Peppermint Larry 203]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/donald-o-hebb-effects-extreme-isolation

 

Actually saw a video that briefly mentioned this. Looked this article up afterwards.

In short, hallucinations

[Lisa 5,553]

This is extremely weird to think about.

 

How would they imagine anything... if they haven't seen/felt/smelt/tasted/heard anything? People who are blind from birth don't actually have visual dreams, they have dreams which stimulate the other senses; but that's only one sense, if they couldn't do the above, how would they imagine? They couldn't, it'd be impossible. You probably wouldn't even notice you exist because everything would be tasteless, silent, pitch-black darkness.

Edited January 25, 2015 by Kyo

[Justin_Case001 4,903]

This is so funny because I actually think about this from time to time.  I thought about it not long ago.  It's like, anything I think about, bam, there it is on the forums.

 

If a person had no senses from birth, there is no question that that person would never know he/she was alive/existed.  There would be absolutely no difference between life and death.

 

If normal person who has always had senses suddenly ceased to have them, then I'm not sure.  I kind of still believe that it wouldn't be any different than death.  I don't think you'd know you existed anymore.  I think the brain would completely shut down.  Without touch, not even being able to feel your breath or heart beat, I'm not sure you'd even be able to think "Aw, f*ck, I'm senseless.  This sucks."

 

Either that, or it'd be like that Lucy movie where she unlocks her full brain power or something and can, like, blow stuff up with her mind and control everything.  I never saw it.  Only the preview.

[Lunatic Cake 1,618]

It really depends on whether you're senseless from the beginning or it suddenly happened.

 

If I were to have no senses from tomorrow onwards, I would have all the experiences stored in my mind, leaving me with nothing but the thoughts and emotions that I've discovered in my lifetime. In this state of mind all that would exist are imaginations, dreams if you will. Images created from the mind itself that manifests itself as reality. In that reality we are something superior to anything known to mankind, we could be whatever we ever dreamed of becoming, and that's the point. It would be like an eternal dream, while you regain your mental state, your physical state is non-existant, resulting in your life being sub-concious. Because you're being aware of your dreams more throughly that way, you would end up gaining illogical experiences from your dreams, making the impossible possible and structure your brain in a way that you truly believe that your mental state is your physical state at the same time which would be no different than the current you having all your senses. The only difference would be: You are something supernatural.

 

That of course only comes from your mind which would probably end once you face death. Depending on whether or not your mental state remains after you die, it would mean eternal life or an abrupt end of the life you knew into nothing.

 

Then again, if you were "born" that way, you wouldn't even exist to begin with because you wouldn't know how to keep yourself alive, you don't feel any pain and thus you don't refuse not to do something that might kill you, so that means you'd die right away.