I'm not sure I can buy that it's an illusion. That seems too contrary to my intuition. But it certainly could be something very different than we think. There's

I'm not sure I can buy that it's an illusion. That seems too contrary to my intuition. But it certainly could be something very different than we think. There's still a lot of momentum behind older concepts where you substitute "consciousness" for "soul". For example, you could find out that consciousness is a real phenomenon but that it's experienced by more matter than we think, but without as much depth or ability to express itself as the human neocortex. Or perhaps each of us has multiple consciousnesses within, but we can't sense it because they all share the same memories and have essentially the same desires and feelings. Who knows! But it could be substantially different than how we frame a singular, soul-like consciousness