Confusion With Dualism

Decartes' dualism is obviously false, we have no souls, we are biological robots, machines of meat constructed by our DNA.

This falseness of one particular brand of dualism made me think for a long time that dualism as a discourse of thought is false as well. I had slight trouble adjusting to my newfound singularism, most prominently, I stubbornly kept referring to myself as "my brain" and not "me". Even with this glitch I did well and for a time neuroscientists' findings were enough to cement to absolute certainty the fact that our selfhood, that which Supers refer to as "soul" or "spirit", is entirely material. I knew that much all along.

What I realize, however, is that our selves being material changes nothing in regard to dualism and that was what my subconscious kept telling me. I am not my brain. If you opened my skull and touched my brain, you would not have interacted with me in any meaningful way. I am an embodied mind. There is a real and legitimate non-supernatural dualism here. We are not our bodies, at least in the manners that bear relevance. That is not to say that our minds have non-material components. They, er, we do not. A sloppy interpretation would be that there is only relevance in the specific configuration of matter, not what the matter is. This configuration could be called the information content. The way I see it, it is totally inconsequential whether a mind is ran on a biological, neuron circuit or a synthetic chip. It is not the neuron or the chip that matters, only the relationships of cognition and perception those systems allow (by conducting electrons).

The Ghost in the Shell is what matters.