Does A Senseless Man Dream?

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Originally Posted by Izzy

But dreams don't actually have anything to do with senses themselves. They are just memories of senses.

How do you actually remember a taste or a smell? You don't need whatever you are trying to remember present at the time to remember it. Once it's a memory it is only produced by something in the brain. I'd like to think the brain is capable of creating these connections of memory even without the senses. Maybe somehow the brain can produce the memory of the taste of a banana in the exact same way someone with taste can just by accident or coincidence.

I think thats not true. If you eat a banana without a sense of taste you will still be able to call it a banana taste but it wouldnt taste the way it does to everyone ele. A brain isn't going to calibrate itself to right without sense. If you never tasted something you can only imagine what it tastes like. Never having taste you will only be able to use some other senses to imagine taste. difficult i think.

without any senses a person wouldn't be able to learn how to define themselves. Unless they were truly gifted, they wouldn't even be able to come up with words in their mind or ways to express themselves. It would be a very.. weird life. And with the case of helen keller well, somebody else had to define the world to her in order for her to understand anything. If you could find a way to communicate with essentially a corpse, it could live life.