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    It is not the case that Because pain and its phenomenal character are identical by rigid designation if at all, there is no analogous 'appearance of contingency' to explain away, undermining posteriori identity defenses.

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    • 1.The epistemic gap between first-person phenomenal properties and third-person physical properties persists even with rigid designation.
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    • 2.Pain's intrinsic qualitative character seems conceptually distinct from any physical property in ways water and H2O are not.
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    • 3.Rigid designation solves reference, not the metaphysical puzzle of why physical processes should necessitate subjective experience.
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    • 1.Rigid designators pick out the same entity in all possible worlds, so pain and C-fibers cannot be contingently identical.
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    • 2.The appearance of contingency in water/H2O cases arises from descriptivist confusions about meaning, not metaphysical reality.
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    • 3.If pain and neural states are genuinely identical, denying this via 'appearance of contingency' merely postpones the explanatory burden.
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