You can cite your body. Before you get offended, really, just examine it as a system, and try to explain how can you have a conscious experience without any sensory input.
Even with a lame comparison to computers, the machines also need a lot of stuff to put a CPU to work.
Also, if the mind is fully integrated with the body, how you explain seemingly inconsistent states that seems to work just fine. Eg., people with ALS or quadriplegic or severely injured or mutilated. If the mind can perfectly works without a perfectly abled body, where's this mind body connection? Also, where's such connection in a comatose brain with a completely funcional body? Maybe I misunderstood what this mind body connection is supposed to be.
I think the second sentence is opinion, not something that could be objectively tested. Last sentence is mostly true. Sick people are much less happy than when they are healthy.
carapace|5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698
In short, the biomolecular machinery that neurons use to think is present in all cells.
Teever|5 years ago
tiborsaas|5 years ago
Even with a lame comparison to computers, the machines also need a lot of stuff to put a CPU to work.
avaldeso|5 years ago
Anecdotal evidence.
Also, if the mind is fully integrated with the body, how you explain seemingly inconsistent states that seems to work just fine. Eg., people with ALS or quadriplegic or severely injured or mutilated. If the mind can perfectly works without a perfectly abled body, where's this mind body connection? Also, where's such connection in a comatose brain with a completely funcional body? Maybe I misunderstood what this mind body connection is supposed to be.
quesera|5 years ago
John Lilly, sensory deprivation tanks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly
SkyPuncher|5 years ago
At best, this is an anecdote.
ErikVandeWater|5 years ago