Of all thought experiments, I've found the billion workers communicating with 1 and 0's to be the strongest illustration of the mind/body problem. It is just absurd at that point to believe consciousness could reside there.
I've wondered, too, whether there is a connection between the mind/body problem and the problem of existence (why is there something rather than nothing). These two problems seem to be fundamentally insurmountable.
"It is just absurd at that point to believe consciousness could reside there."
At the risk of losing my junior philosopher's secret decoder ring, I feel the need to point out that most philosophical writing is an elaborate logical ediface erected in support of the writer's previously existing, unreasoned prejudices.
I've wondered, too, whether there is a connection between the mind/body problem and the problem of existence (why is there something rather than nothing). These two problems seem to be fundamentally insurmountable.