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    It is not the case that Facts about the psychophysical link are cognitively closed to humans

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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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    • 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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