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Matthew Cornelius

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The Wet Room: consciousness, code, and the architecture of illusion

Philosophical Psychology March 18, 2026 Matthew Cornelius

Illusionism holds that phenomenal consciousness, understood as the intrinsic qualitative character of experience, is an illusion generated by cognitive systems. While attractive in its parsimony, illusionism is often criticized as imcomplete: it denies qualia without explaining why the appear so compelling. This paper develops the Wet Room model as a constructive extenstion, arguing that...