You're making assumptions that Manzotti didn't make in his analysis, and that aren't warranted, given the nature of this discussion. a) physicality is not pres

You're making assumptions that Manzotti didn't make in his analysis, and that aren't warranted, given the nature of this discussion. a) physicality is not presumed. i.e., Manzotti doesn't seem to assume that consciousness is even "visible to scientific instrumentation." b) you're conflating logical "thought" with "consciousness". (> Consciousness is correlated strongly and solely with the brain. Meaning, if you cut off my hand I can still think and feel and reason. If you remove a fist-sized volume of tissue from my pre-frontal cortex I'll never have another thought again.) That's a gigantic assumption that is absolutely unwarranted.