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    It is not the case that Sensation belongs to the organic body, not to the mind.

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    • 1.Descartes himself locates pain and hunger in the mind-body union, not in the body alone, suggesting sensation is irreducibly psychophysical.
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    • 2.If sensation belonged solely to the organic body, there would be no explanatory gap between neural firing and felt qualitative experience.
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    • 3.The phenomenal character of sensation—what it is like to feel heat or pain—is a mental property that cannot be reduced to organic processes.
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    • 1.Kant argues that sensation is the matter of intuition and is a necessary condition for any empirical representation, making it constitutively mental.
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    • 2.A purely passive account of sensation conflicts with Aristotle's active reception thesis, wherein the mind receives the form of sensible objects without their matter.
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    • 1.Sensation is purely passive.
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    • 2.The mind is purely active and therefore cannot be the seat of sensation.
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    • 3.Living, embodied organisms are the proper subjects of sensation.
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