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    Simultaneity alone fails to establish cognitive support b... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The appearance of an internally cognizable aspect, not an external object, is the actual cognitive support.

    Simultaneity alone fails to establish cognitive support because two unrelated simultaneous mental events satisfy concomitance without one grounding the other.

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    • 1.Grounding requires explanatory priority: if event B merely co-occurs with A, B cannot explain why A obtains, so simultaneity is insufficient.
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    • 2.Two independent neural firing patterns can synchronize without causal relation, showing concomitance alone permits explanatory gaps in cognition.
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    • 3.Cognitive support demands asymmetric dependence; mutual temporal coincidence creates only symmetric relations, incompatible with support structures.
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    • 1.Simultaneity may encode constitutive relations where events are aspects of a single unified cognitive state rather than separate grounded events.
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    • 2.The argument conflates logical support with causal grounding; cognitive support might operate through holistic constraint satisfaction, not sequential dependence.
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    • 3.Rejecting simultaneity as sufficient arbitrarily privileges temporal succession; many legitimate supports (conceptual, structural) operate non-sequentially.
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