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    It is not the case that Attention on the Nyaya account is a subsequent act of manas that discriminates and names an already-arising cognition, not a condition for the cognition's initial occurrence.

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    • 1.If attention is post-hoc, it cannot explain how manas selectively directs sense-contact toward specific objects initially.
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    • 2.Distinguishing cognition from attention creates explanatory gaps about what unifies pre-attentive mental states into coherent experience.
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    • 3.The Nyaya model may conflate the temporal ordering of report with the actual causal structure of perceptual processes.
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    • 1.Pre-reflective cognitions occur constantly without conscious attention; attention merely brings them into explicit awareness.
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    • 2.Mental discrimination and naming require conceptual activity that presupposes an already-given object of consciousness.
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    • 3.Empirically, we experience sudden perceptions before we consciously attend to and name them as distinct entities.
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