Modal Argument: The Mind is Not the Brain

[Neo-Scholastic]

I accept your challenge. When you set a thermostat to 72, it intends to reach it. Explain to me how this is different from a hungry dog that intends to eat a rabbit. From a materialistic perspective both exhibit mental properties. Only the thermostat has no brain yet shows goal directed behaviour.

You're really THAT desperate ?
YOU set the thermometer. It did not set itself. YOU have a brain. It's YOUR goal, not the thermometer's goal.
Try try again.

So you resort to special pleading? Your philosophy has no basis for assigning mentation to one physical process as opposed to another.