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This reinforces rather than undermines first-person subjectivity (it grounds "subjective truth") and reframes naturalization as the question of how a self-decentered subject emerges from neurocognitive organization.
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undercutThis reinforces rather than undermines first-person subjectivity (it grounds "subjective truth") and reframes naturalization as the question of how a self-decentered subject emerges from neurocognitive organization.
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If the subject is the dynamic outcome of reflexive failure, two things remain unexplained: (i) the irreducible my-ness of experience that persists through the failed translation, and (ii) the standard against which a reflection counts as failed in the first place. (Frank's critique; the authors fault Zizek for not engaging it.)
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