This is a linkpost for Could Consciousness Be an Illusion?, an episode of the podcast Within Reason hosted by Alex O'Connor, and featuring Keith Frankish. I think it is a great introduction to illusionsim. It is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The timestamps are below.
(0:00) Is Consciousness An Illusion?
(4:02) Do We Have a Private World?
(10:00) The Nature of Visual Experience
(20:13) Is Awareness Behavioural?
(28:17) Isn’t Introspection Itself a Private Experience?
(33:04) Philosophical Zombies
(43:05) What Motivates Illusionism?
(50:02) Psychedelics and the Dissolution of the Self
(59:23) Why Are Philosophers Always Categorising?
(1:10:31) Does Alex’s Triangle Exist?
(1:21:40) Is Pain Just a Reaction to Stimulus?
(1:49:05) Is Pain an Emergent Phenomenon?
(1:55:52) What Illusion Is Actually Happening?
(1:59:07) Can AI Be Conscious?