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    It is not the case that Currie and Ravenscroft's distinction between recreative and enactive imagination shows that phenomenological mimicry of belief falls short of simulation in the relevant sense.

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    • 1.The recreative/enactive distinction may conflate epistemic access with functional difference—both could achieve simulation via different routes.
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    • 2.Phenomenological mimicry of belief involves deploying actual inferential capacities, making it functionally equivalent to limited simulation.
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    • 3.Currie and Ravenscroft's threshold for 'relevant sense' of simulation may be artificially stringent and question-begging.
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    • 1.Recreative imagination involves mere phenomenological rehearsal of content without engaging the cognitive mechanisms that generate beliefs.
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    • 2.Enactive imagination requires actively constructing counterfactual scenarios using belief-formation processes, not just mimicking their phenomenology.
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    • 3.True simulation demands functional isomorphism with target cognitive states, which phenomenological mimicry alone cannot provide.
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