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    The synthetic unity of subject and object in consciousnes... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The synthetic unity between subject and object in consciousness presupposes an original activity of the absolute subject

    The synthetic unity of subject and object in consciousness is fully explicable as a regulative structure without positing any entity that 'performs' that unity.

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    • 1.Regulative structures (like logical rules) organize experience without requiring an entity that 'applies' them, just as grammar organizes language.
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    • 2.Positing a unified subject performing synthesis creates an infinite regress: what unifies the unifier? Regulative structures avoid this problem.
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    • 3.Empirically, we observe only the correlations between subject and object, never a separate entity mediating them. Parsimony favors structural explanation.
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    • 1.Regulative structures are abstract patterns; they cannot explain *why* those patterns apply to *this* consciousness rather than another or none at all.
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    • 2.The unity of consciousness exhibits first-person perspective and intentionality—directedness-toward. Structures alone don't account for this directed character.
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    • 3.Claiming unity is 'merely regulative' seems to deny what consciousness manifestly exhibits: an actual binding of representations into singular experience now.
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