You are consciousness argument

If you had a choice would you want to be a body or a consciousness. What you are is a consciousness with the experiences of having a body. You could actually be a brain in an experience machine without a body, but being stimulated by the experience machine to think that you have and control a body in what appears to be interacting with a real external world. Most people would say that if their body was alive but they were never going to be conscious again they were, for themselves, no better off than being dead. Without you experiencing being conscious you do not exist even when others consider you to be your body. Other conscious being can't see your consciousness. They can only see your body and its behavior.