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Yes, but in quadriplegics that connection is severed, and while it results in a lot of unpleasant medical issues, spinal cord injury doesn't alter cognition (ot
by sterlind 3y ago
Yes, but in quadriplegics that connection is severed, and while it results in a lot of unpleasant medical issues, spinal cord injury doesn't alter cognition (other than the depression from coping with a severe disability.)
- LoganDark 3y agoOf course it doesn't affect consciousness to a significant degree, since metacognition largely (or entirely) happens within the actual brain. But you still receive signals from other places, and losing them detracts from the experience of actually having a body, imho. I'm sure quadriplegics can attest to feeling like they've lost parts of their body, since they sort of have.