This paper attempts to make sense of the disagreement between David Chalmers and John Searle regarding the implications of the irreducibility of consciousness. Though Chalmers and Seale agree that consciousness is irreducible, Chalmers thinks this forces us to property dualism, while Searle argues that the irreducibility of consciousness has no antimaterialist implications. I argue that his disagreement arises due to a fundamental unclarity about the strength of the modal claims required by materialism.