You may wonder what Guide Dogs week 2012 has to do with Swans but check out the first picture! http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2012/oct/09/guide-dogs-week-2012-in-pictures Well done that man!
What would the best be? Renard from The World Is Not Enough style deprivation of touch/pain threshold could be an interesting one. Do we, physically, experience more pleasure than pain on an everyday basis anyway? Smell would be no major loss. Yeah yeah it's nice to have roses and cologne and that, but most of our cities smell awful anyway. Another one which may avoid unpleasantnesses rather than enable great pleasure. Hearing - yeah, that's ****. Can't converse like a normal person, can't do impressions, can't tell a joke with your own voice, or hear how other people are speaking when they do. Only experience music through vibrations. Bad one to lose along with sight. Taste - third place for me, in the middle. Some silver lining in that you could just buy cheap as **** food all the time and live off that, not aspiring to buy really tasty expensive stuff, but at the same time, one of the true pleasures in life is lost there. Certainly titillated tastebuds appease the brain more than a nice odour.
Well if you put it like that , it would appear you've answered your own question ( I do agree though)
Would hate to lose my sight, if I had a choice hearing or sight then hearing it would be. Top man in a Swans jacket.