orthonormal comments on Explaining vs. Explaining Away - Less Wrong
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Scott, I swapped "mysterian" for "anti-reductionist", since you're correct that the term "mysterian" has been used to refer specifically to those who think consciousness can't be explained.
However, if you google on, for example, "objections to materialism", the second google hit will turn up a page that includes a short list of "objections to materialism in general", of which the first is, verbatim:
I really am not attacking a strawman here! If you already understand scientific reductionism, that's great. Not everyone does.