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    It is not the case that The non-finding of consciousness in introspection is not evidence of consciousness's non-existence.

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    • 1.One cannot deny their own consciousness without presupposing it.
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    • 2.Any dismissal of consciousness requires consciousness to be present to perform the dismissal.
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    • 3.Consciousness is self-evident and cannot admit its own absence.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Introspection is a fallible, theory-laden cognitive process, not a transparent window onto mental reality, as shown by Nisbett and Wilson's 1977 empirical work.
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    • 2.What introspection reveals is the content of consciousness, not consciousness itself as its own object, a distinction central to Husserl's phenomenological method.
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    • 3.The failure to locate X through method M is only evidence of X's absence if M is a reliable detector of X, which introspection demonstrably is not for foundational awareness.
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    • 1.Shankara's Advaita Vedanta holds that pure consciousness (cit) is the witness-subject (saksin) that illuminates all cognition and is therefore never itself an object of cognition.
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    • 2.A self-luminous ground condition cannot appear as an object within the field it constitutes, just as an eye cannot see itself seeing without optical mediation.
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    • 3.The objections in P1–P3 conflate consciousness as presupposed self-evidence with consciousness as an introspectively locatable object, conflating two distinct epistemic roles.
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