Two alternate approaches:  (two papers with opposing viewpoints) 

a) Materialists and Non-Materialists are both right - about themselves; 

see article below. 

b) materialists are right: 

see article in section b), subtitled:

"The sense of presence during sleep-partalysis as a hint to the biological source of the "illusion" or “level-confusion” underlying the notion of “consciousness” as claimed by non-materialists, and potential experiments to identify this factor".

Avi Rabinowitz           Send comments to: air1@nyu.edu