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    It is not the case that Direct realism entails that perception gives us unmediated access to objects, but perceptual illusions and hallucinations demonstrate that experience can systematically misrepresent the world.

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    • 1.If perception gives unmediated access, there should be no systematic gap between how things appear and how they are—yet illusions are universal.
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    • 2.The same proximal stimulus can produce opposite perceptual experiences, showing access is mediated by interpretation, not direct.
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    • 3.Direct realism cannot explain why hallucinations feel indistinguishable from perception without positing an intervening representational medium.
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    • 1.Illusions and hallucinations involve the same neural processes as veridical perception, suggesting they're failures of the same direct access system.
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    • 2.We must distinguish between perception itself (direct access) and the interpretation/judgment that may follow it (which can misrepresent).
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    • 3.The fact that we *detect* misrepresentation presupposes some direct contact with reality against which to measure the error.
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