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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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