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    Supports→The Chinese Room argument lacks independent logical force because it relies on intuition rather than reasoned premises

    Dennett's heterophenomenology shows that intuitions about inner experience systematically mislead even trained observers about cognitive processes.

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    • 1.Cognitive science reveals unconscious processes (priming, implicit bias) contradict what subjects report about their decision-making.
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    • 2.Introspection cannot access sub-personal computational processes, so reports about them are inherently confabulated reconstructions.
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    • 3.Third-person behavioral and neural data often contradict first-person reports, suggesting introspection is systematically unreliable.
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    • 1.Heterophenomenology conflates ignorance about mechanisms with systematic self-deception; subjects may accurately report experiences despite not understanding causes.
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    • 2.Dennett's approach privileges neuroscience as truth-maker, but inner experience and neural activity describe different explanatory levels, not competing facts.
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    • 3.Even if introspection misleads about processes, this doesn't undermine the reliability of reports about conscious content itself.
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