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THEORY-1204: The strongest evidence that a quality-space model targets phenomenal experience, and not only behaviour or neural activity, is convergence between models of the same space derived through different behavioural procedures, since experience is what those procedures share

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StatusProposed
Tagsconsciousness, philosophy-of-science
SourceLIT-1361 — Phenomenal structure: What is it and what is it for?
ExtendsTHEORY-953 — On Isaac's structuralist account, the strongest evidence that a quality-space model targets phenomenal experience, and not only behaviour or neural activity, is convergence between models of the same space derived through different behavioural procedures, since experience is what those procedures share; he concedes that the convergence observed is coarse, with discrepancies that in many cases exceed each method's own uncertainty, and that because the models average over subjects what they converge on is a standard observer

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Source

Isaac (2025), LIT-1361, §5 with footnote 15; read in full in NOTE-1163. What Isaac argues, and what he concedes, is THEORY-953, which this entry extends.

Why it is Proposed

Two procedures can agree because they share the stimulus’s physical geometry or a common decision process, without sharing an experience. No comparison measures agreement against those nulls.

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