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Originally posted by Domesticated Those people have always had sense though. I would think that losing them makes you go insane, not a complete lack of them in the first place.

I don't think a person born entirely without senses would be "insane," they just would not have much of a mind in the first place. Other than autonomic functions, the brain is devoted to assimilating sense experience, coordinating the body's movements in the world, and communication. The parts of the brain devoted to those things develop only if a person actually does them: people paralyzed early have very underdeveloped motor areas, people born blind have underdeveloped sight areas, etc. A person without senses would not be doing any of those things for development, so what would their brain be devoted do, and how would it develop at all?

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Why do you say that? Got a study or something?

Not a study, but other primates will grow sickly and even die if raised simply without social contact, let alone deprived of all their senses...

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Originally posted by Domesticated Imagine for a second that a child was born deaf, blind, mute and with no sense of touch, taste or smell. Provided continued existence, do you think this child would develop human-level intelligence and come to question the nature of their existence and location? Or would the absolute absence of external stimulus prevent them from doing anything but existing like an animal?

Seeing as reality and every way we interact with it is dependent upon our senses, I think they'd be and forever remain a vegetable. I'd say most if not all animal life would be more alive than this supposed child, sense they can react to external stimuli.

does it mean if you can't feel pain, you can't feel yourself die?

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This is what happens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge

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Originally posted by D-res Seeing as reality and every way we interact with it is dependent upon our senses

The 9 known senses? Hmmm...

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Last edited by Halcyon+On+On on Sep-14-2009 at 13:18

Humans actually have at least nine senses. Vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, balance, temperature, pain, and proprioception (position of parts of your body relative to each other).

Well yeah, that's why I wrote 9 instead of 5. Jeez.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Well yeah, that's why I wrote 9 instead of 5. Jeez.

Did not.

Did too, the edit was just for a minor punctuation error!

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Ok ok, so Mr. Jive discovered 4 new human senses this morning. Wanna fight about it?

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