I would submit a challenge to the good professor by way of phantom limb syndrome.  If consciousness is a feature of matter, how can the absence of matter report sense data?  Pain is being registered in the memory of a member that is no more. <br><br>Also, it would appear strange that matter could be ordered in such a way where it's nature could be denied or somewhat muted.  In the case of congenital blindness or deafness, one would have to make a case for consciousness despite the segmented failure of matter.  Now Hellen Keller was conscious every wit, yet she did not receive assistance from her eyes and ears.  So if pansychism is a valid concept, we must conclude that those two major sense organs are disqualified from inherently possessing consciousness if awareness is still generated without their contribution.  We can push this scenario with a variety of maladies effecting sensory input.  Covid-19 has demonstrated that people continue to be conscious beings without the faculties of taste and smell.  So it would seem that we have to localize consciousness to the brain if one is committed to any type of serious materialism.  When an anesthesiologist wants to render a patient unconscious, she does not put ear plugs in his ears, nor does she blind fold the patient.  She administers drugs that effects the blood brain barrier.  <br><br>Consciousness is a feature of life, not matter.  Dead men are not conscious though their matter are ordered after living men so much so that we study cadavers for insight.  Now I will agree that consciousness does pervade the entire body and not just the brain.  However this domain suspiciously belongs to life.  The brain is not the only thing alive, but the entire body, and so it is with consciousness.  Extinguish life and you extinguish consciousness.   The only way to dispose of dualism is to erase the line between the quick and the dead.,(reply>), @straightedgerc Oh no, Panpsychism stipulates that matter IS consciousness.  God transcends matter making him uniquely qualified to give rise to it. Matter can not be the initial catalyst of creation if it is the object of it.,(reply>), @straightedgerc  What, an IMMATERIAL SOUL?  For the same reason LIFE hasn't been measured in a lab.  You can only measure the matter that life animates.  You can not measure the life force.,(reply>), @straightedgerc  The soul is immaterial.  The good professor wrongly concluded that a soul would add energy to a system be it opened or closed.<br><br>Now as it relates to the brain, it is much like a radio transistor.  It is designed to register and encode radio waves.  Destoying the radio transistor is not tantamount to destroying the radio wave.  However the radio transistor is the interface between the audible and inaudible like the tangible brain plays host to the consciousness of an intangible soul.,(reply>), @straightedgerc In the case of phantom limb syndrome, you feel pain in a limb that has been medically amputated or  dramatically severed.  If matter is conciousness, how is a dead limb experiencing pain? This is a rhetorical question.  It is clearly not.  Rather it is the brain that is manufacturing the experience through a combination of memory and expectation.  Further more, the brain is the only specialized chunk of matter that can shut down awareness if damaged, manipulated, or destroyed. This can not be said of faculties regarding sight, sound, touch, smell, or taste.<br><br>Now I say this only if you are a committed materialist.  I am not.  I do postulate a soul.<br><br>My contention is the consciousness is a feature of life, not matter.