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The changes in single fiber firing rates were considered significant if the differences were 15% or greater [28].
The intervening vestibular stimuli in the opposite direction were excluded from the analysis because of the very low rate of climbing fiber firing on those trials.
The diagram immediately indicates that it is not metaphysically necessary that pain occurs when c-fibers fire.
In Chalmers' vocabulary, the "primary intensions" of 'Pain occurs when c-fibers fire' and 'pain', are functions from possible worlds to extensions that are captured on the diagonal.
As we have seen, 'Pain occurs when c-fibers fire' has a secondary intension that yields F for some worlds: so the statement is not necessarily true, according to Chalmers (1996, pp. 136-8).
Climbing fibers fire at low rates, but a single climbing fiber action potential induces a burst of several action potentials in a target Purkinje cell (a complex spike).
Climbing fibers fire at a low rate, and even when retinal slip is present, an individual climbing fiber does not fire on every trial.
Similarly, the often-used example of pain and C-fiber firing does not match this idea.
Similarly, the two-dimensionalist argument mentions nothing about whether a token c-fiber firing could be that very c-fiber firing in a counterfactual world in which it (or what would otherwise be it) fails to generate the corresponding pain.
This is a stronger claim than the mere claim that pain is not identical to c-fiber firing.
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