If you want to know why

BillyMc
Thu, 26 May 2011 23:13:21 +0000

if consciousness is a illusion, well it allows us to do some very interesting things!

If consciousness was an illusion, we would not be conscious. We would not be. Cogito Ergo Sum, or, in xkcd words, Cogito Ergo Cogito. If I am conscious, consciousness cannot be an illusion. It is not simply something I perceive, for if it were so, there would be no “I” to perceive it.