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it's very obviously not an illusion
Isn't it the very endeavor of philosophy to determine whether what is very obvious is actually the case? Saying consciousness doesn't exist might be no more controversial than saying one dozen eggs doesn't exist, but rather twelve eggs with particular relations. The relations matter; ask yourself if you have ever had any conscious experience that wasn't extrinsic (i.e. implied the existence of things outside your "consciousness"). In any case, it does seem implausible to me how there could be any clearly delineated thing which is referred to by our ordinary use of the word "consciousness," though perhaps it (and all existence) is simply ontologically vague.
There's nothing here!