Comment by root_axis

> Nobody is ‘declaring’ any such thing

Yes, they are.

> The claim is that phenomenal consciousness is fundamentally functional, making the existence of philosophical zombies (entities that behave like conscious beings but lack subjective experience) impossible.

They're explicitly defining the hard problem out of existence.

> I loathe this kind of lazy pejorative attack accusing someone of asserting

Take it easy. Nothing I wrote here is a "pejorative attack", I'm directly addressing what was written by the OP.