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    It is not the case that Humans will never be able to explain the psychophysical link between mind and brain

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    • 1.Cognitive closure arguments assume a fixed human conceptual repertoire, but conceptual frameworks can be radically extended through theory and abstraction.
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    • 2.Science has repeatedly developed non-perceptual concepts (e.g., quantum superposition, spacetime curvature) that transcend spatial intuition yet successfully explain physical phenomena.
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    • 3.There is no principled reason why analogous conceptual extension cannot bridge phenomenal and physical descriptions, given sufficient theoretical innovation.
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    • 1.McGinn's closure argument conflates 'currently unexplained' with 'inexplicable in principle', committing a form of the argument from ignorance.
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    • 2.Eliminativist and illusionist positions (Dennett, Frankish) dissolve the explanatory gap by reconceiving phenomenal consciousness itself, removing the target the argument assumes is irreducible.
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    • 1.Human perceptual concepts are inherently spatial in nature
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    • 2.The scientific concepts humans derive from perception are also inherently spatial
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    • 3.Understanding the psychophysical link requires concepts that go beyond spatial perceptual and scientific concepts
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