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    It is not the case that A relation of acquaintance accounts for the possibility of having an experience, temporarily failing to notice it, and then noticing it again.

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    • 1.Higher-order thought theories (Rosenthal) hold that a mental state is conscious only when accompanied by a suitable higher-order representation of it.
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    • 2.If unnoticed pain requires a higher-order thought to become conscious, acquaintance adds no explanatory work—the noticing just is the higher-order thought arising.
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    • 3.Positing a pre-existing acquaintance relation to explain the transition from unnoticed to noticed experience is therefore redundant and violates parsimony.
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    • 1.Mach, James, and later Dennett argue that 'unnoticed experience' is a theoretically loaded phrase that smuggles in a Cartesian inner theater without justification.
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    • 2.If there is no fact of the matter about an experience occurring prior to any form of noticing or discriminative response, then acquaintance cannot be the relation that explains the gap between having and noticing experience.
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    • 1.Acquaintance is a relation one can stand in to one's experience or to some feature of experience.
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    • 2.One can have a pain without noticing it, and later notice it again.
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    • 3.A relation that allows variable degrees of access to experience is needed to explain such cases.
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