Materialism doesn&#x27;t imply that consciousness is an illusion. It only states that the world is made of one substance. There is no second substance that creates mind, spirit, soul, etc.<p>Subjective personal experience is a side effect of an long running information process located inside a meat computer. Why is occurs and what is &quot;really is&quot; are scientific questions that are incompatible with materialism.<p>Presupposing a second substance is magical thinking.