On naturalism and consciousness

[Ben Davis]

This quote from the current text I'm reading stuck out to me:

"...but then we have no good reason for saying that material things could not be conscious; nor, finally, for saying that material things could not in themselves give rise to consciousness." - J.L. Mackie, 'The Miracle of Theism'

Yeah, we do: neural networks. The only time consciousness is observed is when there are brains & nervous systems or their equivalent. Consequently...

Mackie's conclusion at the end of the chapter is that "once we have rejected, as we must, both the extreme materialism that would deny even distinctively mental properties and the complete immaterialism of Berkeley or of phenomenalism, we are stuck with some kind of dualism; and unless this is an absurdly extreme dualism it must admit psychophysical laws or lawlike correlations of some sort."

...doesn't follow. In fact, the reverse is true.