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    The claim that I can become conscious of each of my representations is likely false

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    • 1.Freudian repression demonstrates that motivated psychological mechanisms actively prevent certain representations from becoming accessible to consciousness.
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    • 2.If a representation can be structurally blocked from consciousness by the very mental system it belongs to, then 'I can become conscious of it' is false, not merely difficult.
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    • 3.Kant's own unity of apperception requires that representations be potentially attributable to a single 'I think', but repressed content resists this attribution even under therapeutic effort.
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    • 1.Cognitive science establishes that perceptual processing involves massive unconscious inference, as Helmholtz demonstrated, which never surfaces as consciously accessible representations.
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    • 2.Causal integration into one's behavioral economy, as the objection proposes, is insufficient for consciousness-accessibility because causal roles can be played by representations that are constitutively subpersonal.
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    • 3.Constitutively subpersonal representations, such as those governing low-level feature detection in V1, cannot in principle be raised to the level of personal-level conscious awareness regardless of effort or method.
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    • 1.Some representations are so thoroughly subconscious that the subject cannot attribute them to themselves
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    • 2.Those subconscious representations are nonetheless mine due to causal relations they bear to other representations and to paradigmatically mine actions
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    On one interpretation, the sense in which a representation would be impossible or nothing to me if it could not accompanied with the ‘I think’ is simply that I could not then become conscious of it (Guyer 1987: 139–44). It is credible that for any representation of which I am conscious, I can attribute it to myself as subject, assuming my mental faculties are in working order, and if no controversial account of the nature of the subject is presupposed. However, the claim that I can become consci
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