Does Matter Create Consciousness? Or Vice Versa?

[bennyboy]

Wow. My dog tells me that, too! I guess I really should listen to you both, and accept my senses as the reliable reality-detectors that they are!

If you can't do anything better than return to the same strawmen, you really should spend some quality time with your canine. You are useless for everything else.

Your obvious affinity with my wife aside, it should be said that pulling out debatey words isn't actually argument; nor is grand verbiage like "experientially invariant" any better than just saying, "I think so because that's how I experience things." Either you can demonstrate that your positive assertion about things is true, or you cannot. So far, you have not.