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    The act of spatial representing is itself non-spatial — Carmelics
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    The act of spatial representing is itself non-spatial

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    • 1.Spatial and temporal differences lie in the representation, not in the act of representing
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    • 2.The act of representing must precede what is represented
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    • 3.What precedes spatio-temporal relations cannot itself exhibit those relations
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    • 1.Neural and phenomenological evidence suggests representing space involves spatially organized brain processes that partly constitute the act itself.
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    • 2.If the act of spatial representing is physically realized in extended, spatially structured systems, the act cannot be cleanly separated from spatiality.
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    • 3.Merleau-Ponty's embodied cognition tradition establishes that perceptual acts are always already situated in and structured by bodily spatial orientation.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental aesthetic holds that space is a pure form of intuition that conditions all outer experience, including the very act of representing spatial objects.
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    • 2.If space is a precondition for any outer representation rather than merely its content, the act of spatial representing cannot intelligibly be called non-spatial.
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    Herbart now faces a problem. All spatial and temporal differences, such as right and left, or earlier and later, lie in the representation, not in the act of representing (SW VI: 87). Yet because representing must precede the represented, the soul must, through its representational activity—which, itself, exhibits no spatio-temporal differences—introduce spatio-temporal relations into the representation. Yet the representation is not real; and, quā repraesentātum, it cannot “really [wirklich] be
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