Is AI relevant to philosophical questions about human consciousness?

I saw a post in this chamber that got a lot of upvotes, stating that AI proves the absurdity of the notion that human minds are separate from human bodies (the mind-body problem).<br><br>Is AI really relevant to the question of human consciousness? I think the whole question of AI consciousness is more or less a red herring when it comes to the philosophical questions about human consciousness. The whole mind-body problem is about whether there *can even exist* a mind without a body. But of course we can create a machine that makes decisions based on complex math and computations. That doesn’t change anything about the human brain. Nor does it even necessarily demonstrate that we can replicate consciousness in the first place. If I coded a machine that was the same complexity as a human brain, does that necessarily mean I’ve replicated human consciousness? *No*.<br><br>And that whole thing about how "you wouldn't know if you were a simulation." That's just *not even relevant* to the question of mind-body dualism, so long as we live in a human body within a human world. It doesn't matter if the world is simulated or not. The question is whether mind and body are separate or not. Interestingly enough, the "you wouldn't know if you were a simulation" thing is more relevant to the "brain in a vat," but the "brain in a vat" is not the same thing as mind-body dualism.<br><br>I think the most interesting elements of AI to philosophy are about consciousness (for obvious reasons), about free will, and about moral philosophy, but not the part about "mind" *vs.* "body" … for obvious reasons.<br><br>I’m not a philosopher, so maybe some one with more background could change my mind on this. Thanks.