Imagine if you can that you'd been born without any of the five known senses. So that not once in your entire life, including while you were in the womb, had you ever seen, heard, smelt, tasted or touched ANYTHING.
What kind of thought patterns would your brain form? Hmmmm....
Disclaimers:
- We'll say you're on life support because otherwise you wouldn't last too long...
- Try and remember as awful as this may seem to you now, if this were to actually have happened to someone that person wouldn't know what they were missing. So if you can, try and think if there is something that they would experience that we normally would not. It's easy to pity the version of you without senses knowing what they would miss. But is it possible that if the roles were reversed the sensesless version would pity you for what you're missing???
I'd assume you'd be limited to thoughts of basic instinct and survival... you'd know when you were hungry/thirsty/sleepy etc... and assuming if you're on life support that you're being cared for, then you probably wouldn't know fear of not getting what you need... one would probably be content and not know any better...It might just be a step above brain dead... just barely.
Although if you turned it around and had them fend for themselves (as only a short time would allow before they died) their thoughts would probably be constantly plagued by fear.
And if that happened and before they died someone found them and then started taking care of them, then they'd probably still be plagued by fear of whether that situation would happen again.
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