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    Introspection must involve multiple mechanisms rather than a single unified process

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    • 1.The target states of introspection differ (e.g., attitudes vs. perceptual experiences)
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    • 2.The mode of access to those states differs (e.g., controlled attention vs. passive noticing, verbal labeling vs. non-verbal access)
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    • 1.A single higher-order representational mechanism can account for access to states with different content by varying its intentional object, not its structure.
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    • 2.Rosenthal's Higher-Order Thought theory demonstrates that one unified representational capacity can target attitudes, experiences, and sensations without mechanistic pluralism.
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    • 1.Phenomenological diversity in introspective targets does not entail mechanistic diversity, just as a single perceptual system processes color, shape, and motion.
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    • 2.The argument from differing modes of access conflates the phenomenology of the introspective act with the underlying cognitive architecture producing it.
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    Like Hill, Prinz (2004) argues that introspection must involve multiple mechanisms, depending both on the target states (e.g., attitudes vs. perceptual experiences) and the particular mode of access to those states. Access might involve controlled attention or it might be more of a passive noticing; it might involve the verbal “captioning” or labeling of experiences or it might involve the kind of non-verbal access that even monkeys have to their mental states. Prinz (2007) sharply distinguishes
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