Mind Without Experience?

Not about God for once.

Question: If we didn't have sensory experiences would we have a conscious mind?

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[TheMindspeakers]

So because you can't imagine, it doesn't exist?

Next to that, I'd like to point out that sense of time is possible. One thought still comes before the other, causes the other, and from there on you can extract a sense of time, even without external world. It won't be probable though, but it is possible, I reckon.

[miksedene]

What would the content of these thoughts be without any external stimulus?

[willingtorisk]

We're inside something alive. Like bacteria in our gut, we're in the gut of something and its diet includes our experience. We're part of time, playing our role. I think wer'e supposed to establish multi dimensional awareness, coexistence, and then a dimensional bridge. Light speed travel, even at its best is a joke, we're going to do something no one can possibly fathom. Its coming.

[miksedene]

Do you have anything to back up that claim?

[espritheart]

Just the fact that we are bound in a physical body bears testimony to 'experience'. Inescapable.

But I believe there is a substance that exists, that connects us, that is purely 'existence' or 'awareness', without 'experience'. It exists in uniformity regardless of changes in space-time. Perhaps when we lose our bodies we will become more aware of it..

[miksedene]

Do you have a chain of reasoning to support the existence of this immaterial substance?

[CHASCHARLTON]

@miksedene it must be still coming lol

[pingala10]

@soumyaaymous There is a "I" which is same between you and me , this "I" exists before birth of Mind. The field of this "I" is Neither Perception nor not Perception. It cannot be defined in a Protocol of language unless you and me have a similar experience. Defining Perception,Conception, Consciouness and Awareness is a spectrum of Mind and Non mind is not possible.

[soumyaaymous]

@pingala10 if those perceptions are missing from birth..he will not be aware of the "I" ..... and i believe that an important part of being consciousness is being aware of the fact that I am a conscious being and I exist..

[soumyaaymous]

DAMN IT MAN !!!

i came up with this .. independently :(

this is what i think about from time to time...but now i see u ve uploaded a video on the exact same topic :P

[richd506]

@TheMindspeakers I'm not sure one would have a sense of time without memory.

[pingala10]

Iam giving thought experiment ,Take a person whose all 5 sensory perceptions missing then "I" will exist still with out any change. Now take out thought perception "I" will still exist but this time in experience not in awareness because of loss of thought perception. Counciousness is different from Perception. "I" is not a word in language it is existance of the knower.

[The0d0r1c]

A conscience without senses or something to sense would be quite dull, indeed. Purely thought itself doesn't get you that far (or anywhere, perhaps) without outside input.

Language, though, isn't meant to describe things, it's meant for communication, which isn't always descripitory. I don't like that way of looking at it, personally.