Consciousness Trilemma

[bennyboy]

1) Conscious experience is not an illusion.
2) Conscious experience has an essentially subjective character that purely physical processes do not share.
3) The only acceptable explanation of conscious experience is in terms of physical properties alone.

Here are my thoughts on the matter. Proposition (1) is based on incorrigible experience. To deny (1) is  the kind of schoolboy sophistry that takes contrarian hubris so far that it is willing to embrace self-contradiction and present it as some grand and unassailable philosophical Truth. People who deny (1) are not serious thinkers.

I still don't understand what you MEAN by illusion in this context.  Do you mean that if (1) is false, there's really no consciousness, but I think I have the illusion that I am conscious anyway?  I'm not debating, I just want you to define what (1) would even mean.