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    It is not the case that A genuinely Jamesian duration-block cannot be replicated by any model that renders temporal asymmetry as a synchronic structural feature rather than a live phenomenal flow.

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    • 1.Phenomenal flow and structural asymmetry need not be incompatible; lived experience might supervene on synchronic relational facts without reducing to them.
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    • 2.James's own pragmatism suggests that if synchronic models successfully predict and explain temporal phenomena, they adequately capture temporal asymmetry functionally.
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    • 3.Claiming duration-blocks are uniquely Jamesian conflates phenomenological accessibility with ontological necessity—both might represent the same reality.
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    • 1.James's radical empiricism demands that temporal flow be directly experienced, not merely structurally inferred from static relations.
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    • 2.Synchronic models treat temporal asymmetry as logical consequence of timeless structure, but this cannot ground the phenomenal felt directionality of becoming.
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    • 3.A duration-block preserves James's insight that the present moment has genuine thickness and causal efficacy that point-instants cannot capture.
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