I don’t know that I’d recommend thinking of body and mind as identical (as in identity theory in phil mind).
The proper relation is probably better thought of as instantiation of a mind by a brain, in a similar way to how transistors instantiate addition and subtraction.
It matters because if you think mind=brain then you may come to some silly philosophical conclusions, like that a mind that does exactly what yours does (in terms of inputs and outputs to the rest of the body) but, say, runs on silicon, is “not the same mind” or “not a real mind.”
I don’t know that I’d recommend thinking of body and mind as identical (as in identity theory in phil mind).
The proper relation is probably better thought of as instantiation of a mind by a brain, in a similar way to how transistors instantiate addition and subtraction.
It matters because if you think mind=brain then you may come to some silly philosophical conclusions, like that a mind that does exactly what yours does (in terms of inputs and outputs to the rest of the body) but, say, runs on silicon, is “not the same mind” or “not a real mind.”