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    Phantom limb phenomena show subjects can act toward and t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There must be a connection between our capacity to act directly with our body and our capacity to feel our body from the inside.

    Phantom limb phenomena show subjects can act toward and through a body part they cannot genuinely feel from the inside in any veridical sense.

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    • 1.Phantom limb subjects report intentional motor commands and proprioceptive sensations without corresponding peripheral input, proving consciousness extends beyond veridical sensation.
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    • 2.The dissociation between motor intention and sensory feedback in phantoms demonstrates embodied action doesn't require genuine felt phenomenology of body parts.
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    • 3.Mirror therapy's effectiveness shows subjects can meaningfully engage phantom limbs via non-veridical visual substitutes, indicating action precedes genuine felt sensation.
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    • 1.Phantom sensations may constitute a genuine form of felt experience—just centrally generated rather than peripherally sourced—so the claim conflates location with veridicality.
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    • 2.Motor commands toward phantoms don't require subjective felt sensation; they could be purely habitual neural patterns firing without conscious intentional 'acting toward.'
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    • 3.The claim assumes an unclear distinction between 'veridical sensation' and action; the phantom might involve different modalities of genuine felt content we're mislabeling non-veridical.
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