text: This stance has recently taken on the name of*illusionism*: the view that phenomenal consciousness is an 
  illusion. The term was popularized by the philosopher Keith Frankish.[60] Frankish argues that 
  "illusionism" is preferable to "eliminativism" for labelling the view that phenomenal consciousness is an 
  illusion. More substantively, Frankish argues that illusionism about phenomenal consciousness is 
  preferable to realism about phenomenal consciousness. He states: "Theories of consciousness typically 
  address the hard problem. They accept that phenomenal consciousness is real and aim to explain how it 
  comes to exist. There is, however, another approach, which holds that phenomenal consciousness is an 
  illusion and aims to explain why it seems to exist."[19] Frankish concludes that illusionism "replaces the 
  hard problem with the illusion problem—the problem of explaining how the illusion of phenomenality 
  arises and why it is so powerful."[19] 