text: The philosopher Daniel Dennett is another prominent figure associated with illusionism. After Frankish 
  published a paper in the Journal of Consciousness Studies titled*Illusionism as a Theory of*
  *Consciousness,*[60] Dennett responded with his own paper with the spin-off title*Illusionism as the*
  *Obvious Default Theory of Consciousness.*[61] Dennett has been arguing for the illusory status of 
  consciousness since early on in his career. For example, in 1979 he published a paper titled*On the*
  *Absence of Phenomenology*(where he argues for the nonexistence of phenomenal consciousness).[70] 
  Similar ideas have been explicated in his 1991 book Consciousness Explained.[71] Dennett argues that the 
  so-called "hard problem" will be solved in the process of solving what Chalmers terms the "easy 
  problems".[16] He compares consciousness to stage magic and its capability to create extraordinary 
  illusions out of ordinary things.[72] To show how people might be commonly fooled into overstating the 
  accuracy of their introspective abilities, he describes a phenomenon called change blindness, a visual 
  process that involves failure to detect scenery changes in a series of alternating images.[73] He 
  accordingly argues that consciousness need not be what it seems to be based on introspection. To address 
  the question of the hard problem, or how and why physical processes give rise to experience, Dennett 
  states that the phenomenon of having experience is nothing more than the performance of functions or the 
  production of behavior, which can also be referred to as the easy problems of consciousness.[16] Thus, 
  Dennett argues that the hard problem of experience is included among—not separate from—the easy 
  problems, and therefore they can only be explained together as a cohesive unit.[72] 