Why add that complexity? There’s zero evidence for it, and it doesn’t help explain anything. If something else unknown can house the consciousness then why not a brain?
It could be an explanation for multiple persona disorders, schizophrenia, alien hand syndrome and similar issues (broken receiver or body receiving multiple signals at once). It also could explain distributed life that might have a consciousness like ant or bee hives (hive minds). Also it would allow for life after death, reincarnation and other ideas.
Also the body can do quite complex tasks autonomously, without consciousness (or the memories are deleted): E.g. if I listen to an interesting radio show while driving a car or thinking about something complex I can arrive at my destination without a lot of the ride or my autopilot drives me to some other destination I used to live or work a while before. So I believe the brain is more like a buffer to execute received commands autonomously (without consciousness) and send feedback.
I’ve also had some experiences after anesthesia where my body executed the things I wanted to do with a weird delay or under the influence of Psilocybin I had the opposite effect where it seemed my body used my phone before I actually told it to.
However, I agree there is no evidence for it and it’s a little more complex than “the brain does it somehow” (even though we can’t explain that either).
Why add that complexity? There’s zero evidence for it, and it doesn’t help explain anything. If something else unknown can house the consciousness then why not a brain?
It could be an explanation for multiple persona disorders, schizophrenia, alien hand syndrome and similar issues (broken receiver or body receiving multiple signals at once). It also could explain distributed life that might have a consciousness like ant or bee hives (hive minds). Also it would allow for life after death, reincarnation and other ideas.
Also the body can do quite complex tasks autonomously, without consciousness (or the memories are deleted): E.g. if I listen to an interesting radio show while driving a car or thinking about something complex I can arrive at my destination without a lot of the ride or my autopilot drives me to some other destination I used to live or work a while before. So I believe the brain is more like a buffer to execute received commands autonomously (without consciousness) and send feedback.
I’ve also had some experiences after anesthesia where my body executed the things I wanted to do with a weird delay or under the influence of Psilocybin I had the opposite effect where it seemed my body used my phone before I actually told it to.
However, I agree there is no evidence for it and it’s a little more complex than “the brain does it somehow” (even though we can’t explain that either).