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    It is not the case that Extensional models can incorporate post-dictive revision mechanisms, whereby later neural signals retroactively update the content of earlier perceptual representations without contradiction.

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    • 1.If earlier representations are retroactively revised, it's unclear what grounds their original causal role in generating immediate experience and behavior.
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    • 2.Post-dictive revision threatens the temporal ordering principle: effects (neural updates) cannot authentically modify the content of prior causes (initial signals).
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    • 3.Extensional models require determinate membership conditions; retroactive content shifts blur whether objects ever had stable extension in the representation.
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    • 1.Neural plasticity evidence shows the brain routinely updates stored information based on new inputs, suggesting representational content isn't fixed at encoding.
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    • 2.Extensional models can remain logically consistent if post-dictive updates are treated as revisions to the extension set rather than contradictions within it.
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    • 3.Empirical phenomena like color constancy and motion integration require late-stage neural corrections to earlier sensory signals, supporting post-dictive mechanisms.
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