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    It is not the case that Perceptual experience is constituted by embodied, perspectival acts that are strictly first-personal and non-transferable across subjects.

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    • 1.Perceptual content can be shared intersubjectively through language, joint attention, and coordinated action despite differing embodied perspectives.
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    • 2.Neuroscience shows similar neural patterns across subjects viewing identical stimuli, suggesting perception has transferable structural properties.
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    • 3.If perception were strictly non-transferable, cross-subject communication about the world would be conceptually impossible, yet it clearly occurs.
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    • 1.No two subjects can occupy the same spatial position simultaneously, making perceptual perspectives literally non-transferable between bodies.
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    • 2.Qualia—the subjective character of experience—cannot be fully communicated linguistically or objectively measured across different subjects.
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    • 3.The body's sensorimotor capacities and limitations fundamentally shape what and how one perceives, making embodiment constitutive of perception.
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