Why is your consciousness only attached to the matter that comprises your body?

Well, I'm functionalist. a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_%28philosophy_of_mind%29" rel="nofollow"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionali…/a The brain is an information processing system. Everything we see, hear, feel, and think is based on the brain's processing. If you think about the mind like this, all your paradoxes fall away. But there you go.