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    It is not the case that Facts about conscious experience cannot be fully understood from a third-person objective point of view

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    • 1.Heterophenomenology, as developed by Dennett, treats first-person reports as third-person data points subject to the same interpretive methodology as any empirical evidence.
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    • 2.If a rigorous third-person methodology can systematically predict, explain, and interrelate all sincere first-person reports without remainder, the claim that something escapes objective understanding is an unverifiable assertion, not a demonstrated gap.
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    • 3.Unverifiable assertions about explanatory gaps bear the burden of proof that the hard problem literature has not yet discharged.
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    • 1.Mary the color scientist, upon leaving her black-and-white room, learns no new propositional fact but only acquires a new representational ability (knowing-how, not knowing-that).
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    • 2.If phenomenal knowledge is reducible to the acquisition of abilities rather than new facts, then all facts about conscious experience are already capturable within a complete third-person physical description.
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    • 1.Facts about what it is like to be a bat can be fully understood only from the bat-type point of view
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    • 2.Only creatures capable of having or undergoing similar experiences can understand the what-it's-likeness of those experiences in the requisite empathetic sense
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    • 3.Third-person perspectives, such as those associated with objective physical science, are outside perspectives that lack this empathetic access
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