Illusionism is (un)resistant to sentience
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность" April 6, 2026 M. D. Gorbachev
The article is devoted to the question of the compatibility between the illusionist theory of consciousness and the widely accepted sentientist approach to the justification of moral status. Illusionism denies the existence of phenomenal consciousness and qualia, claiming that we are disposed to believe that they exist due to a systematic introspective distortion. If phenomenal consciousness...