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    Challenges→At least some problems with the early/late debate stem from an assumption about the linearity of the processes that support personal-level thinking, not from an assumption about linearity of neural processing per se.

    If rival theorists share no common assumption about personal-level process linearity yet still generate the early/late debate, then that assumption cannot be what drives the debate's problems.

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    Common assumption(as used in philosophy)
    A belief or principle that different people accept as true without needing to prove it, which they use as a starting point for their arguments.
    Personal-level process(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Mental or psychological processes that happen at the level of a whole person (like deciding to go to the store) rather than at the level of brain neurons or cells.
    Rival theorists(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Philosophers or scientists who disagree with each other and propose competing explanations for the same phenomenon.
    The early/late debate(as used in philosophy of mind)
    A disagreement in philosophy of perception about whether the brain processes sensory information early (before conscious awareness) or late (during conscious awareness).

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    linearity(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The quality of following a straight, step-by-step sequence where one thing directly causes the next in a simple, predictable way.

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