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It is not the case that When content is decoupled from somatic substrate, the James-Lange explanatory priority of body-over-feeling is dissolved into mere implementation detail.
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Content decoupling is metaphysically unclear—we lack coherent accounts of how feeling-states exist without any physical substrate whatsoever.
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James-Lange priority may reflect epistemic access rather than metaphysical priority: we notice bodily changes before conscious emotions.
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Implementation details often matter philosophically; substrate-independence doesn't erase causal dependencies on some physical system's properties.
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If identical mental content can arise from different physical substrates, substrate cannot be constitutive of content's nature.
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Functionalism shows emotions depend on causal role, not specific bodily implementation—digital systems could replicate this role.
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James-Lange theory explains *one pathway* to emotion, not its necessary foundation when content exists independent of body.
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