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    It is not the case that The brain does not need to represent the body in the form of a mental representation.

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    • 1.Phantom limb phenomena demonstrate that the brain maintains a body schema independent of current sensory input from the body.
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    • 2.A body schema that persists after limb loss cannot be explained by attention to present bodily states alone—it requires stored representation.
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    • 3.Therefore, Melzack's neuromatrix research shows the brain does represent the body even absent the body's causal contribution.
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    • 1.Predictive coding frameworks (Friston, Clark) hold that the brain generates top-down generative models of the body to minimize prediction error.
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    • 2.A generative model of the body is precisely a mental representation of the body in a computationally substantive sense.
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    • 3.The sufficiency of 'attention to the body' for action already presupposes a representational prior against which incoming signals are compared.
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    • 1.Biological systems only need to know what is required to accomplish their tasks.
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    • 2.Paying attention to the body may be sufficient for action, without requiring a stored representation of it.
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