Or as the Wikipedia article on Eliminative Materialism succinctly puts it:

>Another view is that eliminativism assumes the existence of the beliefs and other entities it seeks to "eliminate" and is thus self-refuting.

That said, Illusionism should not be seen as a "hail mary pass attempt to save reductive physicalism". From the same Wiki page:

>In the context of materialist understandings of psychology, eliminativism is the opposite of reductive materialism, [which argues] that mental states as conventionally understood do exist, and directly correspond to the physical state of the nervous system.

The last line is a link to the page for "neural correlates of consciousness". The evidence for which, to me, sure suggests that there is a casual relationship between physical and mental events.