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    Challenges→A rat-delusion (hallucination of pink rats) involves a distinctive sensory experience that dictates an erroneous perceptual judgment by accurately representing features present in that experience

    Therefore the illusionist structural analogy fails: hallucinations cannot inherit the representative accuracy that illusions derive from real objects.

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    • 1.Illusions derive accuracy from causal contact with actual objects that hallucinations completely lack.
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    • 2.Without grounding in real objects, hallucinations cannot inherit the representational properties that illusions borrow from reality.
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    • 3.The structural similarity between illusions and hallucinations is insufficient without the causal-historical connection illusions possess.
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    • 1.Hallucinations can represent accurately if they match actual states of affairs, regardless of their causal origin.
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    • 2.Both illusions and hallucinations rely on internal neural structures; neither requires direct object-contact for representational content.
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    • 3.Accuracy is determined by world-content mapping, not genealogy—hallucinations can inherit accuracy through isomorphism with reality.
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