The "it's an illusion" part is a piece of rhetorically toxic language that usually comes up in these discussions, as its a bit provocative. But it's equally ant

The "it's an illusion" part is a piece of rhetorically toxic language that usually comes up in these discussions, as its a bit provocative. But it's equally anthropocentric to say that someone without a body can't have a conscious experience. When you're dreaming your body is shut off - but you can still be conscious (lucid dreaming or not). You can even have conscious experiences without most of your brain - when you hit your little toe on something, you have a few seconds of terror and pain that surely doesn't require most of your brain areas to experience. In fact, you can argue you won't even need your brain. Is that not a conscious experience? (I'm not really trying to argue against you, I just find this boundary interesting between what you'd call conscious experience and not)