It's not really so amazing. This general disagreement has been going on for hundreds of years. Not going to be resolved by either you or Strawson, I'm afraid. :(
Amazing that Galen Strawson cites my article "The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies." Apparently he just can't imagine he could be wrong about zombies lacking that special Something. Try, Galen ‘Magic, Illusions, and Zombies’: An Exchange https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/03/magic-illusions-and-zombies-an-exchange/ … via @nybooks
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I agree with you that consciousness doesn't give us access to non-physical properties, but I think you overstate this point when you seem to deny an ineffable phenomenal character. Any theory of consciousness must accept the "seemings" for what they are, and explain their origin.
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The illusion is in the nature of the seemings, not the seemings themselves.
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Perhaps this conflict could be resolved if you both agreed that: (1) Yes, we do have conscious experience (contents thereof), but (2) that this conscious experience in itself does not reveal the physical substrata with which it is correlated.
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If we were to realize words are behavior, that words don't refer but are actions, we would recognize the silliness of the argument. A behavior is non-referring interaction, and 'models' are ways to behave.
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We can imagine a distinction between a preprogrammed artificial mind/brain without mental events etc and a mind that experiences meeting artificial and real minds. E.g. computer games with AI and human controlled characters.
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