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if some sort of accident rendered you unable to use your eyes/ears/etc. for the sensory purposes you describe, would you then cease to be a human being? the who
by hc 17y ago
if some sort of accident rendered you unable to use your eyes/ears/etc. for the sensory purposes you describe, would you then cease to be a human being? the whole body certainly plays a role in thinking, but the threshold between consciousness and its absence is defined by what goes on inside the brain.
"animals and even insects don't think based on algorithms" i think one could bring in some studies of insect behavior that suggest the opposite of this.