Consciousness, the triumph of the "or"

There is something about consciousness, that it seems to feel it is detached from all material things. That the thought that it is part of the material world, which it clearly is, seems so counter intuitive, that if anything seems counter intuitive, the evanescence of consciousness seems more counter intuitive than the proposition that 2 plus 2 equals 7.  Thus, to consciousness, it seems detached, that its reality is above the reality of the deteriorating physical world, the world of atrophy.   Thus, the reality of consciousness, illusory as it is, is its "orness" from the world of things.
Thus, like all other things, the mind body problem is moored in Andorian reality.  That being that while the two may be one, the "and" may seem to predominate, the "or" struggles to assert itself and eventually succeeds in doing so by creating the feeling of separateness.  Thus, the sense that the mind is separate, the Cartesian duality so deprecated over the centuries by generations of philosophers, is in fact an indication of a healthy balance between the "and" and "or".