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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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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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  • The pre-reflective immediacy that reflection seems to lose is an après-coup illusion: it is produced by the failure, not lost to it — so the split is ontological, not epistemological.
  • If the subject does not coincide with itself, appearances are not transparent to it.
  • The transcendental question becomes: what neurocognitive ontology yields self-decentered subjects? 4. Therefore the split subject is, in principle, approachable scientifically.
  • Therefore both miss subjective truth — "I can be wrong about myself."

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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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