Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?