Well, see above. If. as i said, you had ever had the delightful or surprising experience of being separate from your body you would discover quite a difference, I reckon. "Don't all stories come with telephones?"

The body is a communication device, a cross between a credit card and a seeing-eye dog. Might as well conclude, as in one science fiction story of a survey done by aliens of Earth, that all Earthlings have wheels and gasoline engines. And many of them keep little bipeds as pets! :>)

Depends on what you look at and when, I guess.

My own opinion is that identifying with a physical structure like a brain or a body is a retreat, however justified it may seem at the time.

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