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    It is not the case that The claim that I can become conscious of each of my representations is likely false

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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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    • 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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