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human
If a person/a brain, was somehow born without being able to receive stimuli from the body through the 5 senses, would it still have consciousness?

Not sure if this is the right sub, but I'll explain what I mean by the question a little more. I was thinking the other night after recently reading some articles about how nothing exists until we look at it. This got me thinking, that our consciousness only exists because we have outside stimuli that created that perception. If I was born without the ability to feel, see, hear, taste, and smell. How would I be able to form a thought? Or would I be able to? Would my mind create some other way to perceive the world around it?
gpt
I think for the purposes of your question and the answers you hope to receive, it is important to establish that for Humans, *there are many more than 5 Senses.* 

By some estimates, there are 30-70 "senses" through which the Human body can perceive.  Examples include the sensing of: Balance, Temperature, Pain, Familiarity, Time-passing, and dozen and dozens more.

More important to your ability to think, is *Language*.  If you have a limited structure of language, you will not be able to "think" as you understand it.  Humans think with an "inner-voice."

Language is integral to the inner-voice.  For example, with an absence of a spoken language, deaf people "think" by signing in their minds and turn it into a voice to drive inner-thought. Without a vocabulary and grammar to create a condition for thinking and the platform from which to build thoughts, thinking just wouldn't be possible.  

It has been demonstrated that a poorly educated person who possesses a limited vocabulary and a limited understanding of grammar often cannot verbalise the ideas of more complex topics, and as such, wouldn't have the ability to deeply consider its nature and effects it may have on them given the limitations of their inner-voice to provide a language for understanding and complex thought.  A rich vocabulary is therefore an integral part of the system required for complex thought.

The senses, all of them, play a lesser extent to the process of *thought*, per se.  Should you have a complete language in your mind, you can lose all other senses but still maintain rich and complex thoughts.

Nevertheless, we are all brains in vats. :) Drink up.