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    Challenges→Aesthetic pleasure is self-maintaining, unlike practical or sensory pleasures.

    If aesthetic pleasure requires ongoing cognitive labor to maintain will-lessness, it depends on a self-sustaining mental act no less demanding than practical attention.

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    • 1.Will-lessness is not a passive state but requires active suppression of practical cognition, demanding sustained mental effort.
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    • 2.Both aesthetic absorption and practical attention involve goal-directed mental processes that tax cognitive resources similarly.
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    • 3.The phenomenological ease of aesthetic experience masks underlying cognitive labor needed to maintain disinterested contemplation.
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    • 1.Aesthetic pleasure can occur effortlessly once aesthetic attitude is adopted, requiring minimal cognitive maintenance thereafter.
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    • 2.Practical attention serves instrumental ends and requires constant adjustment; aesthetic attention has no external demands to satisfy.
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    • 3.The claim conflates cognitive activity with effort—maintenance of will-lessness may be cognitively active but not cognitively demanding.
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