First I did not know what to answer, but then I thought of buddhism.
It is believed that we have multiple bodies: physical, emotional, mental, etc.
Of course, emotional and mental are not visible to the human eye but it doesn't mean they make no change to our experience.
In your question, the physical body would have no senses, witch means no response towards consciousness. That does not mean there would be no emotional nor mental activity. Your question is what would this kind of activity be? And how would it be different of a normal body?
In theory, the functions would be the same but maybe not as active as ours. Per example, one would have feelings everyday but they would not be related to what the physical senses. They would be related to how the person feels in general. It would also have mental activity but not as active as ours, it would not be thinking of everyday problems but I guess it would still be thinking of its own.

I always wondered the same thing. If they were to conduct an experiment letting a child grow up in the wild as if it were thousands of years ago and see how they would react to the environment and how knowledgeable they would be(construct tools, fire, etc)

Sort of the same idea. But i'm talking about growing up with ALL the senses.

Have experiments been done like this before?

Nope. But that wouldn't stop people from trying to convert him.

mammals die without interaction, ie. hugs, kisses, love,


this is proven

mammals die WITH interaction, ie. hugs, kisses, love,

this is proven

nice troll

Well your study is baseless =/

Just because intimate interaction is not present, does not mean that it is the only reason for death in the subject.

By "sort of the same idea," you mean the complete opposite idea? Experiencing life with all of the senses -- whether experiencing it in isolation in the wilderness, or experiencing it with the comfort of family in your home -- is not even comparable to what existence would be like without any of the senses.

Well, speculation is possible; thoughts are built upon our senses, a person born completely deaf can't imagine sounds, nor a born-blind could imagine anything visual. A large part of the things we think of is learned actually, so there's no possibility for any kind of learning as well.

Just as we can't imagine what colour would UV-light be if the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is visible to us would be wider. Or how to perceive surroundings using some ultrasound sonar-like system such as the one bats use.

So the answer to this based on this speculation: no thoughts at all, basically a braindead person since the brain doesn't receive any stimuli, and "you can't make something out of nothing" - there is nothing to build thoughts from.

Please do point out if I forgot something, or was oblivious of it.

This post was edited by Holod on Sep 19 2011 12:00pm