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    It is not the case that A teleosemantic approach threatens the truly embodied character of a James-Lange style theory of emotions.

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    • 1.On a teleosemantic account, what a state represents is determined by its function of correlating with a core relational theme.
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    • 2.Any non-embodied vehicle — such as a disembodied judgment — that has the function of correlating with a core relational theme would represent that theme just as well as an embodied vehicle does.
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    • 3.If non-embodied vehicles can represent core relational themes equally well, embodiment is not essential to the representational role emotions play.
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    • 1.James-Lange theory grounds emotional content in proprioceptive and interoceptive bodily feedback loops, not in abstract functional correlations.
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    • 2.Teleosemantics, as developed by Millikan, defines representational content via selection history, which is indifferent to the somatic substrate carrying that history.
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    • 3.When content is decoupled from somatic substrate, the James-Lange explanatory priority of body-over-feeling is dissolved into mere implementation detail.
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    • 1.Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis demonstrates that bodily states are constitutively, not merely causally, involved in generating emotional meaning.
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    • 2.A teleosemantic account that permits disembodied vehicles to carry identical representational content entails that somatic markers are replaceable without loss of emotional content, directly contradicting Damasio.
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    • 3.If somatic markers are replaceable, the distinctive phenomenal character that James-Lange assigns to felt bodily change is demoted from constitutive to merely contingent.
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