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Originally Posted by d*d
I was thinking that the question alluded more to self awareness, all the science concepts explain how our bodies live, but self awareness is something harder to pin down. It is fair to theorise that should my brain be stripped of all five senses I would still be aware of my existence, so I could say that awareness is a function of our brain but is set apart from it's other functions because it does not respond directly to stimuli but uses measured, considered responses- it is also responsible for forming who we are , how we interact with people and means we can ask questions like the one that started this thread
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But what empirical evidence supports this? If you lost all five senses, WOULD you, in fact, be aware of your existance? Humans, by their very nature, require mesaurement. Time, distance, emotion... With none of your senses, how would you measure your existance? You'd think... but what would you think? Likely, you'd go mad and eventually become unsure of your own existance anyhow.
Also, regarding evidence, your awareness of existance... how does that prove or disprove that awareness in a function of the brain? Again, there is no way that I'm aware of to measure this. If there is more than just a physical entity that makes up what is normally known as you, than how can it be shown that that ethereal piece is not where awareness lives?