Derek Pereboom gives a short explanation of the debate over materialism and its implications for consciousness. Personally, I’ve never been able to take seriously the argument that consciousness is in any way non-material. The main argument against this view seems to be that the way we experience consciousness seems to argue against it being entirely material, but if there’s one thing we should have learned with the past few hundred years is that our introspective intuitions often map poorly to how the world actually works.