Christianity is heading for a full allegorization

[GrandizerII]

Well, I disagree with Chalmers on a number of points. For example, i don't see philosophical zombies as being coherent.

Can I hear the argument for that?

But, I also don't think that there is any need to go beyond the correspondences between neural correlates and conscious states. Those correspondences *are* the explanation of conscious  states, And if there is a way of translating neural behavior and conscious states, that linkage is all that is required to explain consciousness.

Establishing correspondences alone doesn't provide the full picture. There's still something missing here. You may be personally satisfied with such an account, but it doesn't mean there's not something missing here that demands an answer.

I no more have to give a mechanism for the connection than I have to give a mechanism linking charged particles and electric fields. Having the correlation *is* the explanation.

Again, I disagree. Like I said earlier, correlation isn't the full explanation.

That said, maybe this isn't too much of a problem in this case since physicists can perhaps logically conceive of ways that particles cause fields, and they just haven't/can't establish this scientifically.

In the case of consciousness, because we're talking about a switch from the physical to something that seems to be not physical (it may still be physical but it nevertheless "feels" bizarre and funny), there is more demand for an explanation of how that switch works. In other words, there is concern that phenomenological consciousness may not be in line with strict physicalism/materialism.