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    It is not the case that Participants' failure to report the gorilla may be due to the phenomenal difference being epistemically unusable rather than absent.

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    • 1.If a phenomenal state leaves no memorial trace and cannot influence report or behavior, there is no empirical or theoretical ground to posit it occurred.
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    • 2.Ned Block's distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness requires independent positive evidence for P-consciousness, not merely the absence of A-consciousness.
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    • 3.Positing epistemically unusable phenomenal states is an unfalsifiable auxiliary hypothesis that violates standard parsimony constraints in philosophy of mind.
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    • 1.Dennett's heterophenomenological method holds that subjects' reports exhaust the legitimate data for attributing conscious experience; unreported states lack evidential standing.
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    • 2.If the inattentional blindness paradigm yields no difference in behavior, report, or downstream cognition, the 'phenomenal but unusable' hypothesis explains nothing that absence of experience does not equally explain.
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    • 1.A phenomenal difference can be epistemically unusable if it is immediately forgotten.
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    • 2.A phenomenal difference can be epistemically unusable if it is too unstructured and inchoate to be epistemically mobilizable.
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