> consciousness is probably just an illusion anyway, like free will Saying "consciousness is an illusion" makes no sense except for twisted definitions of "con

> consciousness is probably just an illusion anyway, like free will Saying "consciousness is an illusion" makes no sense except for twisted definitions of "consciousness" or "illusion". Most people synonymize "consciousness" with "subjective experience" and "illusion" with "not real". So if you're saying "consciousness is an illusion", you're saying consciousness doesn't exist / that no one has subjective experience / that no one can observe anything / that everyone is a philosophical zombie. Surely you can prove to yourself that you are observing something. Maybe you're confused about what you're observing, but you can be 100% sure you're observing something. In fact, all of your knowledge might be an illusion, except for one thing: you know that you are observing/experiencing/conscious. It is the ultimate non-illusion. Another way to put it is that this is, by definition, what it means to be conscious. "I think, therefore I am."