It does bring up all sorts of “is consciousness an illusion” questions.

But if consciousness and free will are illusions then you have to ask the question, “why are we asking these questions?” If all self awareness is, is the brain’s editing of our perception of events so that it seems like we made a choice… you have to wonder why? Why would we have a mechanism that created the illusion of consciousness and freewill? And why would even bother to investigate the nature of self awareness?

Makes on wonder if some of the earlier Christan “heresies” which believed the physical world was an illusion created by Satan to keep souls from finding their way to God might have some sort of basis to them.

Clearly we are self aware, and have some measure of free will. And yet experiments show we don’t. If you accept the validity and interpretation of those experiments fully ( which I do not ) then that opens up some unsettling questions.