We're in a strange cultural epoch where a growing number of people are challenging the mind/body split which originated in antiquity, and a number of other people (or sometimes, even more bizarrely, the same people) are reinforcing it.

This is part of the interaction, experimentation and exploration of AI: what does it mean to be intelligence without a body?

Or potentially much more importantly: can consciousness exist without a body?

"I am large, I contain multitudes."
-- Walt Whitman