Why materialists are predominantly materialists

[bennyboy]

But you are manipulating the image of Angelina Jolie.  If I say instead of 'poke' that you can manipulate the experience of red by manipulating the brain?  Then you have no argument, as your entire argument depends on a slavish literalism.  How does what you are saying in any sense indicate that consciousness is not a product of the brain?

That's a strange argument, since I haven't been arguing that consciousness is not a product of the brain. I've been arguing that products (aka supervenient properties) are not identical to the systems on which they supervene-- much as "red" is not "apple."