Is our perception of consciousness tied to the location of our eyes and ears?

If our eyes and ears were on our chests, we'd have way too much going on above our 'minds' and we'd just stumble around, running into things.

It's all strategically placed.....our eyes and ears are in our heads which allow more mobility as the head can turn and nod and shake your head no to more pasta, you're stuffed as it is.

Basically, its all relative. If our chests held our gateways to perception, it would probably swivel and look really weird.

You see with your brain. The eyes do not see anything. Light impinges on photoreceptors in the retina (which, technically, is part of the brain, but I won't be considering it as such) and nerve impulses are generated by RGCs and sent to the brain via the optic nerve. You do not perceive images until signal processing occurs in the brain (visual cortex and related visual areas). Think of it this way. 1) If you can see with your eyes, then why does the body devote a huge chunk of the occipital, parietal, and temporal cortical lobes to processing information for vision? 2) Imagine recording all the signals from the eyes to the brain, recording them at, say, the optic chiasm, when someone sees a rabbit. Then have them shut their eyes and you replay all those signals, sending them to the brain. The person would see a rabbit, even though no image of a rabbit was striking the retina.

Perception is a philosophical question. Every-ones perception of everything is different, so, a question about perception, the only LOGICAL answer is "Depends on how you perceive it" Just like you can't tell how someone else perceives anything, you can't predict how someone might perceive something if anything was different.

People are putting together the mind with the brain - the thinking organ.