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RE: There Are No Absolute Truths
You can't use the concept of existence in the process of denying existence. That would be the logical fallacy of the stolen concept.
If you accept that consciousness do exist then you also have to accept that existence exist.
"If nothing exists, there can be no consciousness: a consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms. A consciousness conscious of nothing but itself is a contradiction in terms: before it could identify itself as consciousness, it had to be conscious of something. If that which you claim to perceive does not exist, what you possess is not consciousness." -Ayn Rand
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/existence.html
I never claimed to deny existence. I simply gave you two possible interpretations about the nature of existence.
Define consciousness
Try to engage in the conversation based on the premises of the article rather than trying to find arguments based on quotes from authors that answered similar questions. I never even mentioned consciousness in the article or on in this thread.
There is not even a unified dictionary definition for the world. That actually demonstrates that consciousness cannot be absolutely true since it perceived differently :)
We can ask 10 people to define existence and you will see that their truths will be relative to each other and none will have sufficient evidence to provide an objective truth for all.