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Huh? If materialism is true and everything is matter including your conscious soul, why wouldn't an isolated[1] electron have conscious experiences? In a materialistic worldview, your soul does not have a little XML tag stating that it is a conscious entity, and neither do electrons.
[1] edited for clarity and consistency with the OP.
ETA: Just for the sake of clarity, it should be noted that emergent phenomena are just that--they can justify recurring patterns in a variety of physical systems, but they can hardly account for something as basic as our internal experiences. Especially when said emergent phenomena are merely postulated as such, with no details given and no evidence whatsoever.
Note that the above was in the removed part of the article.
A shame. It was a great line.
I would more than agree - it was part of what made it a good article. The post is much, much weaker without it.