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    It is not the case that The felt quality of 'compression' requires intentional directedness that Herbart's force-based model systematically excludes by treating representations as non-intentional magnitudes.

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    • 1.Phenomenal compression may arise from non-intentional physical processes; intentionality could supervene on magnitude without being primitive.
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    • 2.Herbart's force model can represent directedness implicitly through relational magnitude structures without explicit intentional content.
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    • 3.The claim conflates what explains phenomenology (forces) with what phenomenology seems like; appearance of intentionality doesn't require it fundamentally.
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    • 1.Phenomenal qualities like compression involve aboutness—they present content as directed toward objects, which requires intentionality.
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    • 2.Force-based magnitude models treat representations purely quantitatively, lacking the qualitative directedness essential to phenomenal experience.
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    • 3.Herbart's non-intentional framework cannot explain why compression feels like something *toward* an object versus mere neural activation.
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