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    The phenomenal character of an experience is fully determ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Veridical visual experiences and hallucinatory experiences must themselves be different experiences

    The phenomenal character of an experience is fully determined by the intrinsic neural states of the subject, not by external objects.

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    • 1.Identical neural states in two subjects produce identical subjective experiences regardless of their external environment.
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    • 2.Brain-in-a-vat and normally-embodied subjects with identical neural activity have qualitatively identical phenomenal experiences.
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    • 3.External objects causally influence experience only by altering neural states; the objects themselves add nothing intrinsic to phenomenology.
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    • 1.Phenomenal character includes intentionality—what experience is *of*—which depends on external relational properties, not just neural states.
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    • 2.Two subjects with identical neural states but different historical causal relations to objects have different phenomenal contents (externalism).
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    • 3.Perceptual experiences have intrinsic modal properties (realness vs. hallucination) that track actual external objects, not neural states alone.
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