Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[bennyboy]

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.

You seem to have trouble with the words "may be," as in "it's one of the possibilities."  Do you know what else is not falsifiable?  The assertion: "X may experience qualia."  And it doesn't matter if X is a person or a bit of space dust.  That's because you've never seen a mind, nor measured it, nor known it to exist except by a choice of philosophical assumption.

But let's say that qualia are real and that something in/about the brain IS responsible for it.  What would that be?  How would YOU, since you're so big on science, demonstrate which neural, chemical, atomic, or QM systems do or do not experience what things are like, and which do not?

Again, you sound confident, but I suspect you'll have to resort exclusively to mockery, and not at all to science, in answering my questions.