Seeing red

[Angrboda]

Or perhaps we're talking about how dog-like human structures are.  Or how robotic-like certain dog structures are.  What makes you think this is a response to your post about supervenience?  It's not.  But if you ask me I will answer.  Mind doesn't 'supervene' on mere matter of any configuration.  Mind is a representational system like that of the robots.  The human representational system is capable of greater flexibility and complexity, but this is a difference in degree, not kind.

Okay, what is it about the universe that, if certain kinds of information or processing is there, causes qualia to exist-- when there is nothing like this in "matter of any configuration"?

No. That's a strawman argument. Certain kinds of processing do not 'cause qualia to exist'. Certain configurations of processing are qualia happening. You are suggesting that qualia are ontological entities in and of themselves. I don't think they are. Certain kinds of processing in our mind convince us that we are experiencing qualia. Qualia aren't entities; they're artifact of a specific representational system. Our 'mind' is a representation of a system that doesn't exist. This system has a body, and thoughts, and qualia, happening in a no-space space inside our heads, physically, even though there is no such system there.