To what extent is consciousness separable from the physical world?

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To a very large extent. It can be said that the physical world can only do one of two things to consciousness. It can inform it, or it can end it. Consciousness can make executive decisions that then determine how some of the body acts.

Consider how any two things are separated. Degrees of interaction are removed. My hands are currently interacting with my keyboard, in order to type this essay. I can remove one of my hands to use my mouse. My other hand would stay on the keyboard so I can invoke keyboard macros like copying and pasting.

My hands are more separate from the keyboard when I am using my mouse. As such, consciousness can be more or less separated from the physical world.

Some people are more connected with the physical world than others. Athletes, construction workers, craftsmen. These people need very fine-grained understanding of how physicality works. If I’m a woodworker, I need to know how wood grain operates.

If I’m a microchip designer, I need to understand how electrons operate on a silicon substrate. If I’m a software engineer however, I do not need this kind of knowledge. I need to understand the rules not of physical effects, but rather of how memory, complexity, and parallel operation work. The workings and content of consciousness are further away from the physical world.

When I am asleep or doing trance meditation, consciousness is perhaps as far away as can be from physicality. In fact, trance only starts to work when I can force a state of ignorance onto my mind regarding the physical world.