Without a Body, Can a Self-Consciousness Truly Exist...
Uh huh
...i mean the experience of self would obviously be different with different mechanisms, but how does that raise the question of whether metacognition can exist? O.o
like, is it talking about a conscious "soul" existing completely independent of any physical system? because that's not the same thing as any of the body-swapping/digitization/etc ideas it mentions at the start
dunno and imma be real with you, after the last week of way too much cult theology and woowoo I no longer care 
I THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK (wish I didn't) that it is saying literally your body contributes even on an almost cellular micro level to your sense of self and idenity and that's part of why (extrapolation on my part) people change with time not just experiences
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