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Maybe I should change that to say harmful drugs.

the quoted text foreshadows the argument about visual fields. I'm not saying that the brain isn't important, just that it cannot solely explain our conscious experience. This alone is sufficient to defeat materialism.

I have a short article that covers some similar topics. In the third paragraph I make a strong argument against materialism by examining consciousness.

http://www.gmw6.com/belief_through_reason.html