I think this would be really interesting to look into, and I guess it depends on the level of disfunction. There’s lots of people who lose conscious control of parts of their bodies but seem to retain some control in that they don’t need to be put on a ventilator or have a pace maker. This suggests that some signals may still be coming through, even if they can’t be accessed via awareness.
But in other cases the signals are totally lost, in which case we should predict some sort of alternation of mental state, and if there’s not that would be both surprising relative to this theory and would require explanation to make sense of both that evidence and the evidence in favor of the theory.
I think this would be really interesting to look into, and I guess it depends on the level of disfunction. There’s lots of people who lose conscious control of parts of their bodies but seem to retain some control in that they don’t need to be put on a ventilator or have a pace maker. This suggests that some signals may still be coming through, even if they can’t be accessed via awareness.
But in other cases the signals are totally lost, in which case we should predict some sort of alternation of mental state, and if there’s not that would be both surprising relative to this theory and would require explanation to make sense of both that evidence and the evidence in favor of the theory.