Magnetoreception

[UltraBudgie]

explain this please " -- but it smacks of using materialist explanations to explain non-material things.", it is proposed that consciousness is material here through the vibration. 

I don't know if I can explain it. Or if I want to try. Okay. You say the phrase "consciousness is", but it is really another layer of model of the manifestation of consciousness, that we can think about logically and perhaps measure. Once we've done that, it does not close the issue, but only moves the questions to another layer of uncertainty, perhaps. I'm avoiding detail here. Examining the various ways we can think of sensory perception is one thing, but then extrapolating that to answers of consciousness is another. It's a category error, conflating empirical science and epistemology. Neither of which I feel particularly like wading into -- as you note, it can make one nihilistic, and I find that depressing.

Hey today is rainy here but I am happy because it is cozy inside! I think I'll cook something today with what's left over in my fridge.

ETA: Sigh, what does one do with a single sweet potato?