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    It is not the case that Pereira's own mechanistic account of animal cognition presupposes that complex mental phenomena can emerge from physical organization, undermining the necessity of transcendence for human cohabitation.

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    • 1.The explanatory gap between physical processes and subjective experience remains even if animal cognition is mechanistic.
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    • 2.Humans may require transcendence not for cognition itself, but for moral agency and responsibility underlying genuine cohabitation.
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    • 3.Pereira's account of animal cognition might not extend to human consciousness without additional premises about neural complexity.
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    • 1.If animal cognition emerges from physical organization alone, human cognition likely does too, sharing the same mechanistic basis.
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    • 2.Successful cohabitation requires only shared behavioral dispositions and social coordination, not transcendent properties.
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    • 3.Parsimony favors explaining human mental phenomena through physical mechanisms rather than invoking additional transcendent entities.
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