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Originally Posted by Radical 
Also, when we are asleep we are not conscious, and our brains don't have any perceptions. We may have dreams, but they are just hazy thoughts floating around from previous perceptions.
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I think your logic is sound in the fact that it is an attempt to break down and isolate what it is that makes us concious living beings, but its just that I know from personal experience that essentially the human being can and does exist outside of the body. I have had out of body experiences where I was completely concious of my surroundings and could observe my physical body which strangely enough just kept on working and talking to people in my workplace and many other OOB experiences. Dreams are not devoid of awareness for me, in fact I have little problem in realising my situation in dreams and acting with lucidity. What you have brought up regarding the limitations of the human body :ie cutting bits off did occur to me years ago but I just can't avoid what all of my experiences have taught me and that is that life does exist outside of the physical without a doubt.