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

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

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

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.