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    It is not the case that If natural signs activate overlapping sensory memories, a single medium can evoke the phenomenal qualities of multiple senses, expanding rather than limiting expressive range.

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    • 1.Memory associations are idiosyncratic and unreliable; what evokes taste for one person evokes nothing for another, undermining universal expression.
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    • 2.Direct multi-sensory media (film, installation art) demonstrably communicate richer phenomenal content than single-medium work with comparable effort.
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    • 3.Overlapping memories require prior exposure; claiming expansion assumes audiences possess identical sensory-mnemonic structures, which is empirically false.
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    • 1.Synesthesia demonstrates that single stimuli reliably activate multiple sensory cortices, proving cross-sensory integration is neurologically real.
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    • 2.Poetry uses visual language (metaphor) to evoke taste, sound, and touch; this linguistic economy shows one medium accessing multiple sensory domains.
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    • 3.Constraint in medium forces artists to develop sophisticated encoding, maximizing expressive potential within formal limits.
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