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    It is not the case that The concept of body representation (and body misrepresentation) can explain how bodily experience can diverge from the physical reality of the body.

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    • 1.Phenomenal bodily experience is constituted by lived, first-person givenness, not by third-person representational states posited by neuroscience.
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    • 2.Merleau-Ponty's body schema is not a representation of the body but a pre-reflective motor intentionality that cannot misrepresent in the propositional sense required.
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    • 3.Invoking 'body representation' smuggles in a Cartesian inner model, replicating exactly the intellectualist framework phenomenology was developed to overcome.
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    • 1.Phantom limb phenomena and xenomelia are equally consistent with enactivist accounts in which bodily experience is grounded in sensorimotor loops, not stored representations.
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    • 2.If divergence from physical reality is explained by failed or absent sensorimotor coupling rather than misrepresentation, the representational posit is explanatorily redundant.
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    • 3.A theoretical entity should not be postulated when the explanatory work it performs is already accomplished by an independently motivated rival framework.
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    • 1.Amputated patients can still feel the presence of an absent limb because the physically missing limb is still represented in their body representation.
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    • 2.Patients with xenomelia wish to have perfectly healthy limbs amputated because those limbs are not incorporated into their body representation.
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