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The problem with roboshark's argument is that he presupposes that the burden of proof is on the person who asserts that we are more than just atoms bouncing around (and, based on the first post, I'm assuming he's counting property dualists as well as substance dualists in this category). But it seems to me that in fact the burden of proof is on the reductionist. The natural tendency is to believe that we have something called a 'mind', and that its properties are quite different from the properties of the stuff we call 'matter'. This can be illustrated by the poster's first post -- (s)he only started thinking this way after (s)he had been educated to do so.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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