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    It is not the case that There must be two different genera of representational unification corresponding to same-continuum and different-continuum representations.

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    • 1.Gestalt psychology demonstrates that cross-modal integration (e.g., audiovisual speech perception) follows unified binding principles regardless of continuum membership.
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    • 2.If a single binding mechanism governs both within-continuum and cross-continuum unification, positing two genera of unification violates parsimony without explanatory gain.
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    • 3.Wundt's apperceptive synthesis treats all representational combination as a single active faculty, making continuum-type distinctions epiphenomenal to the underlying unification process.
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    • 1.Herbart's continuum distinction presupposes that inhibition is the primary mechanism of representational relation, but Kant's transcendental unity of apperception grounds all combination in a single spontaneous act prior to any sensory differentiation.
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    • 2.If the unity of consciousness is logically prior to the differentiation of sensory continua, then continuum-type differences are products of unification rather than constraints upon it, inverting Herbart's explanatory order.
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    • 1.Representations lying on the same sensory continuum mutually inhibit and dim each other (e.g., colors inhibit other colors).
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    • 2.Representations from generically different continua (e.g., color vs. taste) do not oppose or inhibit each other.
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    • 3.Because representations may belong to the same or different continua, the principle of unification must differ depending on which case obtains.
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