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    It is not the case that Phenomenal consciousness cannot imply any intentionality or content

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    • 1.Phenomenal states exhibit intentional directedness (aboutness) as an intrinsic structural feature, not merely as an extrinsic relational property.
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    • 2.Brentano's thesis that intentionality is the mark of the mental entails that phenomenal states, paradigmatically mental, possess intrinsic intentional content.
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    • 3.Husserl's phenomenological analyses demonstrate that the noetic-noematic structure is constitutive of conscious experience itself, not added from outside.
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    • 1.Externalist arguments establish narrow/wide content distinctions but do not eliminate the narrow, internally-fixed intentional content that phenomenal states carry.
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    • 2.Even if wide content is not 'in the head,' narrow phenomenal content—fixing how the world is represented from the subject's perspective—remains an intrinsic feature of experience.
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    • 3.Ned Block's and David Chalmers's work on narrow content shows that Twin Earth cases underdetermine whether phenomenal states lack intentionality altogether.
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    • 1.The phenomenal character of experience is fixed internally and has no necessary relation to the nature of particular substances in one's external environment or to one's linguistic community
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    • 2.Externalist arguments (such as those of Putnam and Burge) show that neither meaning nor content is 'in the head'
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