Hi Fliption, welcome to the forum!
I'm not quite sure I'm getting you or whether you are disagreeing with me or not. In particular I'm not getting what you mean by the bold. Could you clarify? Unfortunately your analogy didn't help me understand either.
My apologies. I had forgotten how difficult communicating about these topics can be on this medium. I'll try to do better.:) I did understand that you were not taking a position on Dennett's view. I was responding about your discussion with Alex but I also expressed my own view of Dennett's position in addition. Sorry if it was unclear.
On whether Dennett claims consciousness is an illusion, I am saying it is a semantic issue. Dennett claims that what I refer to when I refer to my consciousness is an Illusion. He redefines the word consciousness to mean something materialistic and then claims of course it exists. But my idea of consciousness, the one that creates a hard problem for materialism to resolve is an illusion to Dennett. In my analogy he redefines "a dog that speaks" as "a dog that barks" when everyone else is referring to it as "a dog that speaks english". I hope this is clearer.