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Illusionism denies phenomenal consciousness
- Illusionism claims raw private sensory experiences are illusions, not real phenomenal consciousness.
- It suggests our brains trick themselves into believing in a private mental world that does not exist.
Hard problem built on conceiving consciousness
- The hard problem of consciousness arises from conceiving it as a private, ineffable inner world.
- This conception makes the problem seem not just hard but impossible to solve scientifically.
Introspection about consciousness is unreliable
- Illusionism challenges the mind’s conception of consciousness as a real inner world.
- Our introspective belief in this inner world is unreliable and may be a psychological fiction.