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    It is not the case that The psyche's apparent property of being able to activate only a very small number of representations simultaneously is not an intrinsic property of the psyche.

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    • 1.William Hamilton's empirical doctrine of redintegration demonstrates that the span of simultaneous apprehension is fixed at roughly 6-7 discrete items regardless of representational content.
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    • 2.If the limit were purely a function of inter-representational opposition, manipulating content similarity should eliminate the ceiling effect, but psychological evidence shows the ceiling persists across maximally dissimilar representations.
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    • 3.A capacity ceiling that cannot be dissolved by altering representational relations must be intrinsic to the psyche rather than derivative of those relations.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental psychology holds that the unity of apperception is a formal condition of the mind itself, not a contingent outcome of competing mental contents.
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    • 2.If the synthetic activity of consciousness is a structural feature of the subject prior to any particular representations, then limits on simultaneous awareness reflect that prior structure, not inter-representational dynamics.
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    • 3.Herbart's relational account presupposes a subject capable of sustaining representational opposition, and the constraints governing that sustaining capacity are thereby intrinsic to the psyche.
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    • 1.The limitation on simultaneous representations is the necessary consequence of oppositions among representations themselves.
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    • 2.The degree to which representations are inhibited depends on their native vivacity relative to competing representations.
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    • 3.Consciousness is constituted by the totality of coincident representing, so what enters awareness is determined by inter-representational dynamics, not a fixed capacity of the psyche.
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