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Originally Posted by mszlazak  The argument was never meant to explain consciousness. It was meant to credit the hunch that consciousness is as you say "something completely different from everything else we know in the physical universe." It fails to credit the hunch. Since there are no good arguments to counter materialist notions that consciousness is a brain phenomena they continue to work on the problem.
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I don't understand your arguing here. It seems you're talking about two different arguments in the same passage. First you're talking about the counter-argument to the zombie, right? ("The argument was never meant to explain consciousness.") Then suddenly you're talking about the zombie argument. ("It fails to credit the hunch.")
Or am I wrong?
What exactly are you getting at?