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    It is not the case that Dennett's heterophenomenology shows that intuitions about inner experience systematically mislead even trained observers about cognitive processes.

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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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    • 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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