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    Challenges→There must be an eternal intelligence realized in the related facts of the world that partially reproduces itself in individual human minds.

    If the structuring conditions of experience are transcendental features of human cognition, positing an eternal intelligence to explain shared cognitive order is an explanatorily redundant move beyond what the phenomena require.

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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that space, time, and causality structure all human experience without requiring external explanation.
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    • 2.Positing an eternal intelligence adds an entity whose own cognitive structures remain unexplained, creating regress.
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    • 3.Shared cognitive order is parsimoniously explained by common human neurobiology, not transcendent causes.
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    • 1.Transcendental structures themselves require explanation: why these specific structures rather than others?
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    • 2.A designer intelligence may explain why contingent cognitive structures exist and are shared, unlike brute facts.
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    • 3.Neurobiology describes implementation but may not explain why physical systems generate unified conscious experience at all.
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    Key Terms

    cognition(Interpretation of Kant's use of 'cognition' (Erkenntnis) as pertaining to meaning/intelligibility rather than merely knowledge)
    A semantic notion (on the interpretation described)
    eternal intelligence(Green's idealist metaphysics)
    A supra-individual mind that constitutes the order of the world and partially reproduces itself in individual human intelligences, communicating aspects of cosmic order piecemeal but in inseparable correlation.
    explanatorily redundant(suggesting the Future Hypothesis doesn't add anything useful if we already have a better explanation)
    Unnecessary for explaining something because another explanation already does the job better.
    phenomena(Distinguished from data in the context of scientific explanation)
    The targets of scientific learning, inferred from data rather than identical to data itself
    positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
    The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I
    shared cognitive order(as used in epistemology)
    The fact that different people's minds seem to work in similar ways and perceive the world in largely compatible ways, rather than each experiencing completely different realities.
    structuring conditions of experience(as used in epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    The basic frameworks or rules that shape how we perceive and understand the world—like how our brain automatically organizes sensations into patterns we can make sense of.
    transcendental(Scotus's reformulated conception)
    That which has no predicate above it except being; commonality to many inferiors is inessential.

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