> The problem is that all scientific results around the consciousness question derive from what people report about their personal experience.
There are also correspondence tests between experience and behaviour.
> There's no other known way to answer any questions about consciousness, and science hasn't discovered any way to answer questions about the immaterial.
Because there's no such thing in science. If it's observable, then it will be absorbed into a scientific explanation. If it's not observable, then it must obtain by logical necessity, or it might as well not exist.
There are also correspondence tests between experience and behaviour.
> There's no other known way to answer any questions about consciousness, and science hasn't discovered any way to answer questions about the immaterial.
Because there's no such thing in science. If it's observable, then it will be absorbed into a scientific explanation. If it's not observable, then it must obtain by logical necessity, or it might as well not exist.