Mind / Brain

[Anomalocaris]

I'll let Chad address the bulk of this, if he so chooses.

I'll simply point out that since the physicalist explanation of consciousness has yet to be demonstrated, and non-physicalist models can (in theory) be made to comport equally as well with the evidence,

Correlation between the observable physical working order of the brain and evidence of consciousness is well established. While correlation is not causation, causation must perforce exhibit correlation. So the physicalists have the necessary, but insufficient, evidence to clinch their case.

The non-physicalists have no variafiable correlation, thus no evidence whatsoever.

So it is therefore entirely appropriate to assert that the non-physicalist bears the additional burden of catching up to the point of having necessary, if insufficient, evidence.