[tiborsaas]

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.

[avaldeso]

> You can cite your body.

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.

[AndrewKemendo]

Show me these people who aren't significantly augmented to replace their bodily functions eg Hawking.

I'm not sure how you consider that working "just fine."

[quesera]

> try to explain how can you have a conscious experience without any sensory input.

John Lilly, sensory deprivation tanks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly

[tiborsaas]

Sensory deprivation is interesting, but you already have a conscious experience when you enter the tank. It even reinforces that your mind is tied to your body.

[SkyPuncher]

> You can cite your body.

At best, this is an anecdote.