Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[I_am_not_mafia]

There are two ideas here:

1) The brain is solely responsible for consciousness and intelligence.
2) Consciousness and intelligence are a product of something non-material.

In my opinion, these options are neither mutually exclusive nor sufficiently inclusive of all the possibilities.

For example, it may be that the fundaments of mind are intrinsic to ALL matter, at all levels.

How? How is that useful? What explanatory power does that have? How can we test for it? What reason do we have to suspect that it might even be the case? How could we make use of thinking like this?

It's not falsifiable. It's not reproducible. It's not scientific. It's not based in reality. It's woo.