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Such bullshit.
" But consciousness is not like this. Knowing everything there is to know about the brain, or any physical system, is not to know everything there is to know about consciousness. Consciousness, then, must not be purely physical."
This was settled at least a century ago If not longer. If the mind was separate from the physical then lobotomies wouldn't do anything. Mind altering drugs wouldn't do anything. The physical state of the neurons including electrical potentials and chemical messengers are the components of thought.
There is no debate. Any philosophers arguing against the repeatedable experimental evidence that your mind is your brain and vice versa is bullshitting. It's not 300BC when it was debatable.
Can you step out of consciousness and prove there's a reality outside it? Or do you just keep pointing to an extracted brain existing inside consciousness and insist that it somehow proves that matter is prior?