Of course it doesn't affect consciousness to a significant degree, since metacognition largely (or entirely) happens within the actual brain. But you still rece

Of 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.