Well, there are many instances of consciousness surviving without a body. There are many narratives of consciousness being able to take over inanimate forms or at least permeate them with perception.

The logic of insisting that all the consciousness a body is aware of comes from other bodies or parts of them, therefore consciousness must be a product of matter and energy, is (as I have said many times before) very similar to believing that cellphones can hold conversations. Such a belief would require that you steadfastly and completely ignore the presence of connected, remote elements (the owners or operators of cellphones). You could insist, two, that the life forms of planet Earth were boxy things with round rubber feet that lived on petroleum, occasionally infested by small bipedal parasites, but which had the innate ability (hidden somewhere in their internal-combustion systems) to navigate and manage themselves in traffic.

Attributing function inaccurately to structure is an easy, but very incapacitating error.


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