Humour me, I'm a bit slow. It sounds like he's using the word "illusion" to mean "illusion", as in something which seems real but is fake. Does this not still e

Humour me, I'm a bit slow. It sounds like he's using the word "illusion" to mean "illusion", as in something which seems real but is fake. Does this not still entail a Cartesian theater and a consciousness watching it to be fooled by the illusion ?