@arcades Said
Because your not getting the info from a dead body.
You getting it from the consciousness that has moved on, the one that used to inhabit that body.
So you're a Cartesian dualist? You think that the conscious mind merely inhabits the body?
The mind is inextricably linked to the body. It is demonstrable that every mental event accompanies a physical event in the brain. It's clear to everyone that as your brain activity reduces, you become less conscious and aware of your surroundings, as in sleep or anaesthesia. A mind is the conscious manifestation of physical events - if the physical events aren't going one, neither are the mental. When the physical brain is damaged, so is its mental capacaties.
If the mind was independent of the brain, then people with brain damage or Alzheimer's disease would be unaffected. To suggest that the mind is unaffected by the complete destruction of the brain implies that the mind can survive diseases which degenerate the brain less drastically. But it's obvious to anyone with a damaged brain that their mind is not the same as before. And it's obvious to any drunk or high person that the effect the drugs have on their physical brain affects their mind also, unavoidably so. It should also be obvious to anyone that before their brain existed their mind did not; I certainly can't remember anything before birth, or anything for some time after birth, for that matter. So I have absolutely no reason to believe that, as my brain decays and dies, the corresponding loss of consciousness will suddenly, at some magical point, be reversed and I will regain my conscious mind independently of my body.