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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Is consciousness dependent on input to the brain?

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Is consciousness dependent on input to the brain?

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Think about it, if there is no nerve endings to trigger synapses the brain would just sit.

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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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  Yes. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/charles-bonnet-syndrome/

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