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[Purple Rabbit]

I disagree. Sensory organs can be electronic, hormones can be artificially produced, nervous system replaced by wiring, proprioceptive awareness is just another sensor to install.

Just read an article about artificial limbs. Made wired in to nerve endings where the wearer just 'thinks' to move it and it does. Read it here:

I believe this work shows that 'divide' you speak of. If it can be done with an arm, why not a complete torso?

Don't know with what you're exactly disagreeing but I didn't say you cannot replace the feedback from the body with electronic stubs. Only that what constitutes 'you' isn't located in the brain alone.

And of course your article does not show that the feedback from the artificial limb constitutes the same neural map if any that the original limb would do. Part of the neural basis for emotions lies outside the brain. Proprioperception is the awareness of your limbs, i.e. the feedback of your limbs to the brain by neural maps, not the ability to control your limbs.