Agreed. No one who is serious about consciousness or studies of the mind would ever entertain FMRI data.

His fundamental error imho is that he conflates non-dualism with solipsism and it’s fairly common among the Harris, Dennet, Dorkins crew.

Once you’ve planted your flagpole in the materialism camp you have to perform increasingly elaborate sleights of hand to get round the hard problem.

Wait until they realise that their beloved science is just discovering that space and time aren’t fundamental.