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    When judgment rests on this multimodal perceptual complex... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A judgment about one's body posture made on the basis of visual perception alone is not immune to error through misidentification.

    When judgment rests on this multimodal perceptual complex rather than vision alone, the identification component is secured by non-visual channels immune to misidentification.

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    • 1.Touch and proprioception provide direct access to object properties (texture, temperature, shape) that vision cannot fully access or simulate.
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    • 2.Cross-modal redundancy creates mutual verification: if touch and sound both confirm identity, vision's potential illusions become irrelevant to judgment.
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    • 3.Non-visual modalities have evolutionary primacy in identification (smell for kin, touch for infants), suggesting they possess identification security vision lacks.
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    • 1.All sensory modalities are subject to misidentification: touch mistakes texture, hearing confuses voices, smell adapts or deceives. None is inherently immune.
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    • 2.Multimodal integration requires the brain to bind disparate signals, introducing coordination errors that single-modality judgment avoids entirely.
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    • 3.The claim conflates reduced risk of a specific visual error with immunity to misidentification generally—a logical leap unsupported by neuroscience.
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