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    A momentary experience whose content merely represents ch... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Retentionalist accounts do not face the problem of requiring impossible static momentary experiences.

    A momentary experience whose content merely represents change (via retention) does not itself undergo change, and thus remains a static vehicle of dynamic content.

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    • 1.Phenomenal content can represent succession without the representing state itself being successive or temporally extended.
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    • 2.Retention is a representational mechanism: it presents past content to consciousness without requiring the retentional act itself to change.
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    • 3.A photograph contains dynamic content (motion blur) while remaining a static physical object, showing representation and change can diverge.
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    • 1.If retention constitutively involves consciousness updating its grasp of temporal relations, then the experiential state itself necessarily changes.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'vehicle' and 'content' presupposes a separability that phenomenology challenges—experience is fundamentally dynamic.
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    • 3.Calling a state 'static' while attributing temporal representational content to it obscures rather than explains how consciousness grasps time.
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