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This one appears to assume reductionism is false: the same reasoning can apply to properly organized heap of neurons. Indeed an intuition pump, for we are dualists by default.
(Come to think of it, doesn't non-reductionism come from treating our ignorance as positive knowledge? In that case, the mind seems irreducible only because we just don't know how to reduce it yet.)