Is consciousness dependent on the body?

Decades of neuroscience research find that yes, it is.

One of the greatest issues in neuroscience is what David Chalmers termed “the hard problem of consciousness” in 1995. Boiled down, it comes to this: Why does the feeling which accompanies awareness of sensory information exist at all?

Chalmers describes himself as a “naturalistic dualist.” Essentially, he doesn’t believe consciousness can be boiled down …