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I would have countered by asking, if he was still alive, what the significance of consciousness is in all that. It is but a complex mechanism produced by the hallucination machine for guiding the movements of the body, no more controlling of the universe's tangibility than the molecules of air.
Also, is the world not also a figment of the imagination of a lesser consciousness, such as that of a deer? Or of a complex arrangements of rocks, slowly passing interactions between one another via vibrations? (Sorry, too much philosophy of consciousness for me lately, always makes me a bit insane)