Is atheism a belief?

[Belacqua]

What about the brain makes a person with it experience consciousness?

For what it's worth, I think you're describing everything here just right. 

It's very frustrating that everyone thinks it's so easy to object to what you're saying, yet every objection just reveals that they don't understand the issues involved. After all the previous threads about qualia and p-zombies and all that, you'd think it would all be clear. 

Just the fact that people need to type childish insults indicates that probably there's something emotional going on. Something is preventing the understanding of things that aren't really so hard.