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    Broad's model does not clearly meet the requirements of the Strong Continuity Thesis

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    • 1.Broad's 'specious present' is constituted by discrete, non-overlapping acts of sensing that lack any intrinsic phenomenal 'flow' between them.
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    • 2.William James's requirement for temporal consciousness demands a 'transitive' felt passage, which discrete Broadian acts cannot generate from their mere succession.
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    • 3.Without intrinsic phenomenal flow, Broad's model can only produce a logical series of moments, not the experienced continuity the Strong Continuity Thesis demands.
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    • 1.Husserl's retention structure embeds earlier phases as living intentional content within the current moment, providing genuine intra-experiential connection across time.
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    • 2.Broad's model lacks any analogue to Husserlian retention, meaning prior sensing-acts are merely remembered rather than phenomenally retained within the present act.
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    • 3.A model that reduces temporal binding to memory rather than retention cannot satisfy Strong Continuity, since memory is episodic and inferential, not a flowing experiential connection.
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    • 1.The Strong Continuity Thesis requires that successive phases of a stream be experienced as flowing into one another
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    • 2.The Strong Continuity Thesis requires experiential connections between stream-phases
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    • 3.Two successive extended acts of sensing — however temporally close — are entirely distinct acts of awareness
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    The second worry is whether Broad’s model can secure the continuity of consciousness in a way that is acceptable to the realist. At the heart of Broad’s account are acts of sensing which apprehend temporally extended contents. Since in the case of a continuous stream of consciousness these acts form a dense continuum, there is no difficulty with ‘gaps’ in consciousness, and so Broad’s account meets the requirements of the Modest Continuity Thesis. It is not clear, however, that it meets the requ
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