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    It is not the case that If intra-mental faculties of one mind can instantiate the lover-beloved relation (as in the mind loving its own understanding), numerical identity of lover and beloved is not strictly impossible.

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    • 1.Love essentially involves directedness toward an 'other'—a phenomenological gap between lover and beloved that identity collapses.
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    • 2.Numerical identity entails indiscernibility of properties; lover and beloved have distinct relational properties by definition.
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    • 3.Even if faculties are distinct entities, calling this 'self-love' equivocates—it differs categorically from love between separate minds.
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    • 1.Relations like 'loving' are functional roles definable by relata's properties and interactions, not intrinsic identity requirements.
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    • 2.A unified mind can instantiate asymmetric mental states simultaneously (e.g., believing P while doubting P), enabling relational structures.
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    • 3.Mathematical and logical systems permit self-relations (reflexive relations); minds as formal systems should allow analogous self-love.
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