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    It is not the case that One cannot infer the absence of representations encoding a given content from a lack of personal-level awareness of that content.

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    • 1.Parsimony demands we not posit subpersonal representations unless they are necessary to explain behavior, as Occam's razor constrains cognitive ontology.
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    • 2.When behavioral evidence can be fully explained without positing hidden representations, their postulation becomes empirically idle and philosophically unjustified.
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    • 3.A methodological principle that blocks inference from absence of awareness to absence of representation renders representational posits unfalsifiable, violating scientific norms.
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    • 1.Dennett's heterophenomenological method holds that personal-level reports are the primary evidence base for attributing intentional content to cognitive systems.
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    • 2.If absence of personal-level awareness cannot constrain claims about representational content, the theoretical concept of 'representation' loses its explanatory anchoring in observable evidence.
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    • 1.The assumption that the processes supporting personal-level awareness are linear is false.
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    • 2.The inference from lack of personal-level awareness to absence of representations encoding that content depends on the linearity assumption.
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