Monist vs. Dualist Experiment?

[genkaus]

For philosophical reasons, I consider physical matter incapable of producing qualia and see the need for some other vehicle capable of supporting phenomena qualities (dualism).

And what philosophical reasons would that be?

So far, the only reason you've given is that "monism has not satisfactorily explained qualia and you can't believe that it can - therefore you subscribe to dualism". That's not a philosophical reason, that's an argument from incredulity.

The analogy I use is that of a radio, which does not cause music, but is by virtue of its state can receive signals. Others consider first-person awareness an emergent property. They believe particular configurations of physical matter are capable of producing qualia as a non-fundamental property of reality.

Do you believe there is a non-philosophical way, i.e. scientific one, to determine which interpretation is correct?

Your analogy is more appropriate than you might think.

Suppose you find an odd looking contraption from which music is heard. Is it a radio that isn't actually causing the music and simply relaying the signals in an audio form? Or is it a music box or an instrument that is capable of causing the music? How do you determine the difference?

The simple answer is - you fiddle with the knobs. You move it around. You try to figure out if the alterations in the mechanical structure produces a change in music or if the music itself remains unaffected. You'll find that in the radio, the music is not under your control. Sure, you can change the station, but you cannot change what is being played on it. And the same station would give different outputs at different times. However, with the instrument, you do get consistent results.

Similarly, when you fiddle with the brain and see that not only it behaves consistently, but that behavior can be controlled by altering states in a very different way than simply being selected from a range of options. Which indicates that your brain is a musical instrument and not a radio.