> People keep telling me that consciousness is just some illusion which happens inside brain neural network. Ask those people what is experiencing the illusion

> People keep telling me that consciousness is just some illusion which happens inside brain neural network. Ask those people what is experiencing the illusion, and whether we can program a computer to have conscious experience using the same illusion generation. It's like answering the question of "what created the universe" by saying "a god did it." It just pushes the question back. If something can experience an illusion - i.e. to use the philosophical language, "there is something it is like" to have that illusion - then it has consciousness, and the illusion has nothing to do with it.