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    It is not the case that Ned Block's distinction between access consciousness and phenomenal consciousness allows that a creature may have rich phenomenal experience without the functional selectivity attention requires.

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    • 1.Without attention's selective filtering, phenomenal content becomes cognitively isolated and causally inert—questioning whether it counts as genuine consciousness.
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    • 2.Block's own examples of phenomenal consciousness require implicitly assuming some form of functional selectivity to explain quale discrimination.
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    • 3.The distinction assumes phenomenal experience can exist entirely independent of any information processing, which may be conceptually incoherent.
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    • 1.Animals like octopuses display rich sensory experiences across distributed neural systems without centralized attention mechanisms.
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    • 2.Phenomenal consciousness (subjective experience) and access consciousness (functional availability) are logically distinct concepts.
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    • 3.Attention evolved for behavioral control, not necessarily as a prerequisite for having experiences occur in the first place.
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