Could Consciousness Be an Illusion?

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?