I'm thinking (do not believe this with any real conviction yet) that our brains do not contain our emotion or our knowledge. Instead they operate as an interface with knowledge and emotion, among other things. This explains why brains "light up" when triggered in certain ways, and I am not saying that we can "live" without them.

The knowledge and emotion they connect with are not definitively ours, but they are "personalized" for us, so we may consider them our own, even if we do not possess them.

This abstraction doesn't actually change much. Just a diversion, I suppose.

GN, maybe.