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    Facts about the psychophysical link are cognitively close... — Carmelics
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    Facts about the psychophysical link are cognitively closed to humans

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    • 1.Facts about multiplication and square roots are cognitively closed to armadillos because such facts fall outside armadillos' conceptual and cognitive repertoire
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    • 2.Facts about the psychophysical link fall outside the conceptual and cognitive repertoire of humans in an analogous way
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    • 1.Unlike armadillos, humans have already developed concepts like 'qualia,' 'intentionality,' and 'neural correlates' that partially grasp the psychophysical domain.
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    • 2.Cognitive closure requires complete conceptual inaccessibility, but partial conceptual grip on a domain disqualifies the analogy to armadillos and multiplication.
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    • 3.Levine's explanatory gap and Chalmers' hard problem are themselves articulate formulations of the psychophysical link problem, demonstrating human cognitive traction on it.
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    • 1.McGinn's closure thesis assumes the psychophysical link is a fixed, mind-independent fact rather than a framework-relative explanatory demand, which Dennett and eliminativists deny.
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    • 2.If consciousness concepts are themselves revisable or eliminable, as Churchland argues, the explanatory target may dissolve rather than remain permanently inaccessible.
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    In perhaps its weakest form, it asserts a practical limit on our present explanatory abilities; given our current theories and models we can not now articulate an intelligible link. A stronger version makes an in principle claim about our human capacities and thus asserts that given our human cognitive limits we will never be able to bridge the gap. To us, or creatures cognitively like us, it must remain a residual mystery (McGinn 1991). Colin McGinn (1995) has argued that given the inherently s
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