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    The phenomenological givenness of mineness in experience ... — Carmelics
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    The phenomenological givenness of mineness in experience resists reduction to a contingent bundle of negatable representations.

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    • 1.First-person perspective has intrinsic, non-relational properties that cannot be eliminated by negating any particular representation.
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    • 2.The sense of ownership in experience persists even when all representational content is systematically doubted or altered.
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    • 3.Phenomenological mineness is prior to and constitutive of how any representations appear as mine, rather than derived from them.
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    • 1.Mineness can be empirically disrupted or absent (depersonalization, narrative self-alienation), suggesting contingent representational bases.
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    • 2.The appearance of givenness is itself a high-order cognitive representation, not a primitive phenomenological fact requiring special status.
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    • 3.No principled distinction exists between 'resistant to reduction' and 'we lack current reductive tools'; absence of explanation isn't evidence of irreducibility.
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