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    It is not the case that Baillargeon's 'impossible event' findings are consistent with a low-level perceptual continuity mechanism that extrapolates sensory patterns without requiring innate conceptual content.

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    • 1.Infants distinguish impossible events even when perceptual cues differ, suggesting abstract conceptual understanding, not mere pattern-matching.
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    • 2.Low-level mechanisms cannot explain infants' expectation violations for occluded objects—these require object-tracking, not surface continuity.
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    • 3.Extrapolation without concepts cannot account for infants' selective surprise: they show surprise at wrong magnitude but not at feature changes.
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    • 1.Infants show surprise at violations of object permanence before language develops, suggesting pre-conceptual sensory mechanisms.
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    • 2.Neural systems for motion prediction and occlusion detection exist in early visual processing, requiring no innate concepts.
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    • 3.Parsimony favors low-level explanations: extrapolation mechanisms are simpler than positing innate conceptual knowledge.
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