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    The self-transforming flow of consciousness reflects both... — Carmelics
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    The self-transforming flow of consciousness reflects both intentional coherence and semantic self-understanding.

    Consciousness & Mind
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    • 1.Conscious minds continually remake themselves as autopoietic systems engaged with their worlds.
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    • 2.This self-remaking is organized through controls that embody semantic self-understanding.
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    • 3.The flow of consciousness is directed toward intentional objects, giving it intentional coherence.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that introspection reveals only discrete perceptions, never a unified self-organizing semantic agent.
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    • 2.Without a persistent subject, 'self-understanding' is a grammatical fiction projected onto discontinuous mental events.
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    • 3.Intentional coherence across time requires a substrate that bundle-theoretic accounts of mind structurally cannot supply.
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    • 1.Metzinger's no-self model shows that phenomenal selfhood is a transparent representational construct, not genuine semantic self-knowledge.
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    • 2.A system modeling itself as a semantic agent is epistemically distinct from actually possessing semantic self-understanding of that modeling.
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    Consciousness is a dynamic process, and thus an adequate descriptive answer to the What question must deal with more than just its static or momentary properties. In particular, it must give some account of the temporal dynamics of consciousness and the ways in which its self-transforming flow reflects both its intentional coherence and the semantic self-understanding embodied in the organized controls through which conscious minds continually remake themselves as autopoietic systems engaged wit
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