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    It is not the case that The problems of the early/late debate in attention research are more plausibly attributed to additional assumptions about personal-level cognition than to assumptions about linear or hierarchical organization per se.

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    • 1.Treisman's feature integration theory shows that early/late disputes track genuine empirical constraints on perceptual binding, not merely cognitive assumptions.
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    • 2.If binding failures (illusory conjunctions) occur pre-attentively at a subpersonal level, then hierarchy itself determines where selection must occur.
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    • 3.Therefore the debate's problems are architecturally necessary, not artifacts of personal-level cognitive assumptions grafted onto the model.
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    • 1.Pylyshyn's distinction between cognitive penetrability and encapsulation entails that early processing is informationally sealed from personal-level cognition by design.
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    • 2.If early selection stages are genuinely encapsulated (Fodorian modules), then personal-level assumptions cannot coherently reach down to distort their organization.
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    • 3.The debate's problems must therefore originate in the linear-hierarchical architecture itself, not in personal-level cognitive assumptions that encapsulation blocks.
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    • 1.The early/late debate's framework follows Broadbent's hierarchical perceptual processing model combined with communications-engineer assumptions about capacity limitations.
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    • 2.These two elements together naturally generate additional assumptions about how hierarchically organized architecture supports personal-level cognition.
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    • 3.These additional assumptions, not the linearity or hierarchy assumptions themselves, are the source of the debate's problems.
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