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The prevailing point of view among non-religious scientists (as well as here) is that mental processes (the mind) are reducible to the physical processes in the brain. This part is rather uncontroversial, even Searle agrees with it. Out of the alternatives described on Wikipedia Emergent Materialism is probably the closest to the mainstream thought here:
though Eliezer does not like the term emergence.
This point of view is described pretty well in Sean Carroll's classic Free Will Is as Real as Baseball, with free will standing in for your favorite mental property.
Emergent materialism explicitly denies that mental properties are reducible to physical processes, so I don't think it's closest to mainstream thought here. Emergence is often used in philosophy as an alternative to reduction. Or did you just mean the closest out of all the versions of property dualism?
I suspect the view in the philosophical taxonomy closest to the LW mainstream is functionalism.
I trust your expertise in the matter, at least as far as classifying various approaches to philosophy of mind. As I said I was going by the two-line description on Wikipedia. I was hesitant to use the term functionalism because it relies on ill-defined "functional roles".