The passage argues that Galileo had to'strip matter ofits sensory qualities' to descirbe it in mathematical physics while materialists of today are having a tough time trying to explain consciousness in physical terms,(a) and (b) are contradictory to this argument, (c) is negated by the argument in the second paragraph about the 'relentless march of scientific progress' proving wrong, philosophers, claim that certain phenomena are too special to be explained by physical science, (e) is contradictory to the first two sentences of the passage which clearly say that we are aware of the same.The concluding sentence of the passage clearly corroborates statement (d).