But I also have other organs, such as my stomach, and arbitrary lumps of matter such as my elbow and my bicycle, none of which are sufficient to maintain the ou

But I also have other organs, such as my stomach, and arbitrary lumps of matter such as my elbow and my bicycle, none of which are sufficient to maintain the outward signs of consciousness after the brain is destroyed (or merely dosed with gin). So consciousness, which apparently resided in the brain and then went away when the brain was disrupted, didn't go to any of those places. Similarly, when my stomach ceases to digest or my bicycle ceases to roll forward, the digestive function doesn't migrate to the brain and the rolling function isn't taken over by the elbow. So we can choose in each case between the hypothesis "physically stopped working" or "metaphysically sent its function to another mysterious place", and again I'll appeal to parsimony on this one: why should the function be transferred somewhere mysterious by a means outside of our experience and ability to explain? And why make this claim about consciousness alone, out of all the functions that things in the world have? There's a kind of fallacy going on here along the lines of "I can't fully explain what this thing is, therefore every kind of mysterious and magical supposition can be roped into its service and claim plausibility."