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Cold Sensation Without Objective Reality: One Episode or Two States in the S1–D1–Assent Structure of Descartes’s Theory of Ideas with ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking

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This post is a companion piece to “Object-Fixing Content and Objective Reality in Descartes: How Descartes Draws the Line Between Representation and Conscious Modes with ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking” which should be read first. NOTE:   Introduction by ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking This companion post picks up where the prior essay [“Object-Fixing Content and Objective Reality in […]