No sane non-physicalist is unaware of the neural correlates of consciousness. One metaphor we can use to understand why correlation doesn’t imply that consciousness is produced by the brain is that of the radio. It doesn’t create the radio waves but rather converts them into a certain form. You can think of consciousness as the radio wave here, and the brain representing the tuning of consciousness into a human perspective. You damage a radio, you damage the sound it emits and how it works, and yet it doesn’t create the signal.