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Is Consciousness an Illusion?
For me, consciousness is just the fact that the lights are on at all. We can feel directly that there's something that is like to be us. You can't say that consciousness itself might be an illusion because on this account, it just means that things seem anyway at all. It doesn't require a sense of self and I wouldn't even think it's necessarily limited to people. But certainly if you're going to presuppose that something about our brains is producing this, right?