Consciousness Trilemma

[The Grand Nudger]

Or perhaps so familiar that it is easily missed, like Poe’s map game. Tables appear to be solid but are mostly empty space yet we don’t conclude from that that physical states and processes are not real. 

Nor is the comment that consciousness is illusory meant to convey any notion that those physical states and processes are not real.

The world does not present itself to us directly as physical objects; but rather as experiences of objects. We live in a world of impressions, representations, signs, goals, and values. It is true that the properties of intelligible objects may not be as we suppose but that is not a reason to say they don’t exist at all. They just follow different rules than physical objects.

I'm not sure what the point in invoking different stuff and different rules is now, what with your only example of anything remotely alike what you're trying to say....being a table. Hey, it works. The way we experience a table is not the most accurate description of a table at a molecular or quantum level (no surprise there, if we had eyes that could see in that range we wouldn't need microscopes and particle accelerators). No special sauce required.

If the same were true about consciousness......then what, what's the problem?