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LIT-1211: The phenomenal binding problem for neural networks

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Percy, C. & Agarwal, G. (2026). The phenomenal binding problem for neural networks. Consciousness and Cognition 139: 104003. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2026.104003.

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A27 of the exchange cited it as “A particularly pertinent recent paper”, against the claim that a network’s unified owner is real. Bears on CLAIM-355 (the unified owner subject-talk presents is a content of a self-model, while the binding is real) and CASE-114 (the imagined owner): its split of functional from phenomenal binding is the split that claim relies on.

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