I'd like to point out something I spent a great deal of time talking about here some years ago regarding the concept of a "meat robot"
So lets play Devils advocate and say OK we are meat robots. Or perhaps more accurately (only from this perspective) a cybernetic machine. So what does this robot consist of, machine parts, matter, energy and what else? logic gates, decision nodes or switches arranged in such a way as to produce a desired result. We would have software, for the bio robot it is the genome.
Do you see the non physical, non material component here? It is software. Software is a language, a semiotic system of signs and symbols.
The only way to transfer information in physical systems is by use of signs, signs are physical tokens that are representation of something other than themselves. We have a physical token, We have the thing the token represents and we have the rules or meaning that combines these two things. This is a semiotic triad. All pieces must exist simultaneously.
Language, codes, rules, laws are not physical things they are formal, concepts if you like. So here in this system of information transfer is something quite profound. There are no physical laws what so ever connecting a symbol to the thing it represents, this is established by a mind and always by a mind. It must be there in the very conception of the system. So the most crucial aspect of this cybernetic machine is the software, the information that is guiding to functionality. And yet it is not a property of any fundamental force of physics, it is not governed by natural laws, it is in fact non physical, abstract and conceptual. Meaning is assigned, syntax and formalism also not physical. These things are mental.
So how does a materialist explain the fact that being a meat robot requires something non physical and not defined by the laws of physics?
Well you can't.
If a system is bound by physical law it is constrained to the limits of those laws. It is precisely this gap between the physical tokens and the assigned meaning that allows for information to be input into the system. It is precisely this gap that allows evolution to happen. However it happens.
Materialists cannot even explain the ordinary let alone the extraordinary, these are human conceptions, there is nothing ordinary in this realm, in the eyes of a child everything is extraordinary. It is, we are taught mediocrity and what is normal and ordinary. Learn to look as a child, this is the truth.