On naturalism and consciousness

[bennyboy]

Certain arrangements of matter have the potential to possess "mind" whatever the hell it is.

That's a different model then. You are still talking about supervenience.

Except that an observation of a part does not allow us to draw a solid conclusion about the whole.

I don't see how any amount of observation, of whole or part, will establish whether a given system or subsystem posseses mind. Unless, of course, mind is redefined in terms of physical correlates, which is an imposition of dogma that invalidates the process of observation.