Yep -- I have already written your refund check in case I am wrong! :)

And there are schools of thought that hold that consciousness is an illusion but the problem is, an illusion to WHOM? If consciousness is an illusion, then how would I know when I die? Conceivably, my consciousness would have no reason but to continue deluding me as it always has. In fact, I could be dead already, we all could. In fact, the universe could have already ended. Then again, none of these things really existed anyway since consciousness is an illusion.

The start of your algorithm is elegant to the max, AR. But the answer to "to Whom?" and "my consciousness" are identical. The whom is Thou, the consciousness is thou, the awareness of your mourners and the celebration of your release will also be Thou. Building from the bottom up--arguing that conscious is disproven by matter-- is a logical error of confusing the product with the cause, the receipt-point with the origin-point, the WHat with the WHo.

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