I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, but I disagree with this one somewhat: > Therefore, based on Occam's razor, we may provisionally assume that

I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, but I disagree with this one somewhat: > Therefore, based on Occam's razor, we may provisionally assume that all matter possesses some degree of consciousness -- this is the simplest assumption. An even simpler first few steps: * We experience matter, but we aren't sure if matter exists outside of our experience of it * Therefore, based on Occam's razor, we may provisionally assume that all matter exists only within our consciousness -- this is the simplest assumption.