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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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