This position is not only absurd, it also suffers from crippling epistemic issues. For example, from the position of being an onboard self model, how is it that you can know a single thing about the external world beyond the model/representation? How do you know there is physical neuronal brain cells causing your experience, when the part of reality those cells inhabit transcends your epistemic access?

And more conceptually, what does it even mean to speak of non-experiential brain cells? The only cells I know are the images/depictions used and described in the biological sciences - we talk about them Write about them, draw them, observe them in a microscope, posit they're existence, use them within our scientific theories and explanations - they're experiential, part of the lived world. So if we aren't talking about those cells, then what are we talking about? — dukkha

Einstein said, 'If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.'

Neurologists have already proven that on their most fundamental level of their organization the mind and brain substitute for each other's jobs whenever one is malfunctioning and for greater efficiency and reliability. In other words, there is no clear dividing line between what is the mind and what is the brain because one without the other is a contradiction in terms. I know, it sounds silly to bring up neurological evidence in midst of a pissing contest.

You can look up the evidence for yourself, but all the indications are the mind and brain form the particle-wave duality of quantum mechanics and neurologists are about to go down the rabbit hole tracing all the pattern matching all the way into indeterminacy. Already Roger Penrose's theory has receive two experimental confirmations that quantum microwave induced vibrations are created in the axions or microtubules of the brain. What that means is the metaphysical reality and metaphorical reality are converging within the brain and self-awareness is being aware that you are never who you think you are and wonder remains the beginning of wisdom.