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    Cognition occurs only when consciously attending to a giv... — Carmelics
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    Cognition occurs only when consciously attending to a given object, not merely when object, sense faculty, and consciousness are co-present.

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    • 1.The mere coming together of object, sense faculty, and consciousness is not sufficient for a cognitive event to arise.
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    • 2.Sense data becomes a concrete object of apprehension only when attention is directed toward specific regions of the perceptual field.
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    • 3.In normal circumstances, the senses process a steady and continuous stream of sensory impressions without each impression becoming a cognized object.
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    • 1.Subliminal or preattentive perceptual processing demonstrably influences behavior and downstream cognition without conscious attention, as shown in Leibniz's petites perceptions and contemporary masked priming research.
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    • 2.If unattended sensory states causally structure conscious experience, they must themselves constitute a form of cognition, not mere inert physical events.
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    • 3.The Buddhist claim conflates cognition with reportable awareness, an unjustifiably narrow criterion that excludes functionally cognitive states from the mental domain.
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    • 1.The Mimamsa and Nyaya schools held that a valid perceptual episode (pratyaksha) arises from contact between sense organ and object prior to and independent of voluntary attentional direction.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.If attention were constitutive rather than selective, the Yogacara conflates the conditions for cognition's genesis with the conditions for its conceptual elaboration, committing a genetic fallacy.
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    The role of attention in cognition becomes obvious if we take into account the fact that the mere coming together of object, sense faculty, and consciousness is not sufficient for a cognitive event to arise. Rather, cognition occurs only when consciously attending to a given object. In normal circumstances, the senses always process a steady and continuous stream sensory impressions. But this sense data becomes a concrete object of apprehension only when attention is directed toward specifi
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