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    It is not the case that The plurality of consciousness concepts—phenomenal, access, creature, state—tracks different folk intuitions that may collectively misrepresent the underlying physical reality.

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    • 1.These four concepts track real functional distinctions in cognition, not mere folk confusions—neuroscience increasingly confirms them.
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    • 2.Misrepresentation requires knowing the true underlying reality; physicalism about consciousness remains theoretically contested and empirically unproven.
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    • 3.Plural concepts can be mutually compatible aspects of one phenomenon rather than indicators of fundamental error or category confusion.
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    • 1.Folk intuitions about consciousness evolved for behavioral prediction, not metaphysical accuracy about underlying substrate.
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    • 2.Multiple consciousness concepts succeed pragmatically yet conflict logically, suggesting they carve nature at different joints.
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    • 3.Physics reveals unified causal reality beneath fragmented perception (atoms, fields, spacetime), supporting unified substrate beneath consciousness concepts.
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