In case you didn't know, the ghost in the machine occupies the whole body, not just the brain. And if I were to guess, I would say it's comparable to our nervous energy. By the way, I clicked on one of the links, but nothing happened?
And when you're dead, all your nervous energy departs or, whatever it was that made you conscious. Also, people who have lost an arm or a leg, are known to have "phantom limbs," suggesting that perhaps the soul, so long as it remains attached to the body, exists in one piece.
I can't help it if you can't correlate everything that I say. It's more important that I understand what I say anyway -- or, at least why I say it -- otherwise this whole exercise would be pointless.
Only in that you know nothing about either. Other than that, there can be no real similarity between something that is wholly fictional and something as well-understood as nerve signals.
You are quite simply wrong.
Oh, yeah, we wouldn't want this exercise to be pointless, would we?
Well, I tried kicking a coyote in a dream once, and wound up kicking the wall!
Whatever floats your boat.
Heck, what would be the point to knowing anything, if "I" didn't exist? You see, it's very important to understand this first, otherwise there would be no witness.
Seriously, Iacchus, follow the link to the mind-brain-consciousness seminar, click on the second session, and look at about the second half, Susan Blackmore's presentation.
Well, there you go. You know how you're always talking about how dreams are a different reality? There's your evidence on how wrong that is. Dreams are simply undirected imagination, not reality. The wall you kicked shows that you were existing in the same old reality you always exist in. C'est domage.