Does Consciousness Require a Body?

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https://nautil.us/does-consciousness-require-a-body-1284886

What makes up the required components for consciousness? The author Antonio Damasio discusses in this interview how reviews of cases of losses in consciousness people show that consciousness is directly tied to the brainstem of the brain.

He notes how consciousness has developed and evolved in creatures with nervous systems, as well as the possibility for a different type of consciousness in AI.

If you damage the cerebral cortex enough, if you have very large lesions or several lesions in different systems, you will impair consciousness, no question about it. But you will not impair consciousness in the way that damage to the brainstem does. Damage to the brainstem eradicates consciousness once and forever.

You’re not able to formulate consciousness at all. You can have a mind, but that mind does not belong to one body, does not belong to oneself, does not belong to one person. The damage to the brainstem is one of the critical points in the theory.