This is intriguing. The article states that consciousness arises from bodily sensations, not just from the brain. It's a very Epicurean idea, such that he states death is nothing to us as we will be without sensations and consciousness is extinguished.
It's a problem for AI development of sentience as, at least so far, they have no bodies. It happens they do I might have Alexa crawling around on the floor as I dreamed she was doing one night. I don't know if I like the idea!
Consciousness Starts in the Body, Not the Brain: New Neuroscience Study Changes Everything We Knew