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    The mainstream premise that consciousness is intrinsically intentional is false.

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    • 1.Pure witnessing awareness (Shankara's sakshi) is self-luminous consciousness that illuminates intentional acts without itself being directed at any object.
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    • 2.Husserl's own analyses reveal a pre-reflective background awareness that enables intentionality but is not itself structured as subject-pole directed toward object-pole.
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    • 3.If consciousness were the precondition for intentionality rather than a species of it, then intentionality is a contingent feature consciousness can possess, not its intrinsic nature.
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    • 1.Ned Block's phenomenal consciousness (P-consciousness) is characterized by qualitative 'what it is like' character entirely distinct from representational or access functions.
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    • 2.Inverted and absent qualia thought experiments demonstrate that phenomenal character can vary independently of any intentional or representational content.
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    • 3.If phenomenal consciousness is conceptually separable from intentionality in these cases, then intentionality cannot be intrinsic to consciousness as such.
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    • 1.If consciousness were intrinsically intentional, consciousness could not exist without intentional experience.
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    • 2.Consciousness persists in deep sleep where there is no intentional experience.
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    • 3.Therefore consciousness is not intrinsically intentional.
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    One might object that persistence of consciousness in deep sleep is not possible given the mainstream premise of identifying consciousness as intentional experience. Śaṅkara disagrees with the premise that consciousness is intrinsically intentional. (This was a matter of great debate between Advaita Vedānta and rival philosophies like Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika). He counters that the absence of intentional experience in deep sleep does not entail the lack of consciousness insofar as consciousness is not in
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