Is a brain all you need to have a functional mind? Is the body just peripheral to cognition? Many researchers think so, but advocates of embodied cognition have different ideas.
(Quick note: Altered Carbon is racy & gory, but also very good. It doesnt get particularly hung up on the Is a copy of my mind REALLY MEEEE?! question, touches on a lot of interesting problems with technological immortality, & actually has a lot of interesting test cases & scenarios for the concept of embodied cognition.)
The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7756/0f155993cf906f0d8077d940f06e40b43cf0.pdf
A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain by Samuel McNerny - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guide-to-embodied-cognition-why-you-are-not-your-brain/
Embodied Cognition, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
Embodied cognition is not what you think it is by Andrew D. Wilson* and Sabrina Golonka - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00058/full
The Poverty of Embodied Cognition (Goldinger et al, 2016) - http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-poverty-of-embodied-cognition.html?m=1
You Think with the World, Not Just Your Brain by Sam Kriss, a summary of a related phenomenon called extended cognition - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/extended-embodied-cognition/542808/?utm_source=yahoo
A Cognitive Study of Happiness Metaphors in Persian and English (Safarnejad et al, 2014) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814015456
Why You May Want to Stand Like a Superhero, by Robin S. Rosenberg - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-superheroes/201107/why-you-may-want-stand-superhero