Coming straight from a distinguished neuroscientist: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=396215

... this unempirical component of consciousness being posited shares common heritage with...

Past performance is no indicator of future results, and one theory's individual case of validity has no bearing on the validity of the next one to be tested. I do like how you tried to dismiss it by grouping it in with the other theories, but as we both just examined, that is faulty logic and merely supposition.