Remember the "hard problem of consciousness"? What if there's no hard problem at all, as I guessed? Then the problem isn't the hard problem of consciousness, but the illusion problem of consciousness. Not "why is there qualia?" but "why do we keep talking about the so-called qualia that doesn't exist?"
Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness (2017), edited by Keith Frankish:
Illusionism is the view that phenomenal consciousness [feeling, qualia] is an introspective illusion — that introspection misrepresents experiences as having phenomenal properties. This view has many theoretical attractions, but it is often dismissed out of hand for failing to take consciousness seriously.
