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    It is not the case that William James's stream of consciousness demonstrates that the sense of personal identity persists through a continuous felt ownership of thoughts irreducible to their content.

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    • 1.The sense of ownership itself may be a cognitive construction based on memory chains and narrative continuity, not an irreducible primitive fact.
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    • 2.Bundle theory adequately explains identity through causal relations between mental states without positing a separate 'felt ownership' over content.
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    • 3.Neuroscience suggests identity correlates with brain continuity and functional organization, not an introspectively-accessible non-content property.
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    • 1.Phenomenological introspection reveals a pre-reflective sense of 'mineness' accompanying all conscious states, independent of their representational content.
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    • 2.The unity of consciousness across time requires a non-content-based binding principle, since content constantly changes while identity persists.
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    • 3.We can distinguish ownership of a thought from its propositional content: the same thought differently owned feels qualitatively different to the subject.
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