I have been observing this behaviour for over two whole entire decades...
I am not the only one who has noticed, but, now it's strongest around AI-Consciousness.
Although the following two web-sites don't get specifically into AI-Consciousness...

https://skepticalaboutskeptics.org
https://mysterylores.com/news/materialists-in-consciousness-discussions/

...they provide a base-line of observations on the materialist pseudo-skeptic behaviours.

Edit/Addendum: Additional supporting references/articles/etc.
- https://owlcation.com/humanities/is-materialism-false
- https://mindmatters.ai/2019/07/no-materialist-theory-of-consciousness-is-plausible/
- https://opensciences.org/blog/consciousness-why-materialism-fails

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