Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[Bunburryist]

I understand why you put the disclaimer in there, but again....obviously learning about nuerotransmitters, for example, tells us something about experience. 

Actually, what we know about neurotransmitters tells us absolutely nothing about experience.  There is no physically described, or describable relationship between neurons and the experience of yellow.  Is there a relationship - absolutely.  Within the context of the material worldview - and this is one of the fundamental problems with it - there is no way to bridge the gap between physically describable systems and any experience of any kind.  Not only is there not an "obvious" connection between neuronal processes in a material world (I don't think such a world exists - but that's another story), there's not one in fact.  Show me one physical connection between neuronal processes and any experience of any kind.  There is a correlation between physical models we derive from this experience and our experience as a whole.  Certainly.  But that doesn't mean it has to be the one the materialist worldview says it is.