Yet many living beings don’t even have brains. Nor can you determine that brain waves signify thoughts are happening or that perception is occurring. As in a coma patient. Your ever-shifting esoteric bases for defining a ‘living being’ fails repeatedly.
I have been attempting to describe the difference between a human being and something that is human, but not a human being. Your inability to understand that difference is because you have some emotional resistance, not because I have shifted anything.
Your understanding of physical science is really bizarre, I might add. When the brain is functioning, those functions can be measured in a number of ways--EEG, MRI, PET, etc. The fact that those brain functions cause perception and thought isn't even debatable. Frankly, the belief you seem to express that the physical measurable activity of the brain is not related to perception, thought, or feeling is utterly bizarre. If the physical activity of the brain is unrelated to thought and perception, then why was the field of anesthesiology invented? In your odd unscientific view, what is the purpose of chemically suppressing brain function if such suppression is completely unrelated to consciousness?
A living organism is not a being.
Tell me, do you think? If so, where do you feel that thought process occur? Does it take place in your little toe? Do your thoughts happen in the neighbor's driveway? Are you really so unaware of the processes of your own body that you have no clue where all that thinking activity is going on?
Although we have a variety of instruments that can measure thought processes--and are even progressing to where they can roughly determine what people are thinking about--it really does not take a scientist to know that thinking occurs inside your head--where the brain is--and no place else. What I must wonder is why you find the scientific measurement of thought processes so threatening?
In reality, I do not think you are as dense as you make yourself out to be. I think you are a classic troll.