If creatures without Kantian categories can track unified particulars through space and time, the threefold synthesis cannot be a universal necessary condition for object-directed experience.

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Categories (Kantian)(as the mental structures that structure experience): In Kant's philosophy, these are the basic mental tools or frameworks your mind uses to organize experience—like understanding cause-and-effect, or recognizing that things have properties.
Kant / Kantian(as the philosopher whose theory is being discussed): Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher who argued that our minds actively shape how we experience the world, rather than passively receiving it. 'Kantian' means relating to his ideas.
Object-directed experience(as the type of experience the statement is about): The kind of experience where you're aware of and thinking about actual things in the world, rather than just having random thoughts.
Threefold synthesis(as Kant's explanation for how we perceive single, coherent things): Kant's theory that understanding unified objects requires three mental operations working together: recognizing something as continuous in time, connecting different sensations, and binding them into one object.

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