As much as your scientism and medical specialists may try to suppress evidence to the contrary, bodies are organic systems that amount to more than the sum of parts. And we cannot hack away at a body without disrupting its integrity--have you heard of "phantom limb syndrome"?
And you rephrased the premise. I did not write it the way you did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
As much as your scientism and medical specialists may try to suppress evidence to the contrary, bodies are organic systems that amount to more than the sum of parts. And we cannot hack away at a body without disrupting its integrity--have you heard of "phantom limb syndrome"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb
Was Mary Shelley the consciousness expert?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Parts_(film) [credit to Gemini AI, for correctly naming the film from my one-sentence description and incorrect "1980s" time frame.]