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    Broad's model meets the requirements of the Modest Contin... — Carmelics
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    Broad's model meets the requirements of the Modest Continuity Thesis

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    • 1.Broad's account centers on acts of sensing that apprehend temporally extended contents
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    • 2.In a continuous stream of consciousness, these acts form a dense continuum
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    • 3.A dense continuum of acts entails no gaps in consciousness
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    • 1.Husserl's retention-protention model demonstrates that temporal unity requires intentional horizonal structure, not mere act-density.
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    • 2.Broad's acts of sensing lack the nested intentional structure necessary to bind non-simultaneous moments into a unified stream.
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    • 3.Without such binding, a dense continuum of discrete acts remains a sequence of snapshots, not a continuous consciousness.
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    • 1.Broad's dense continuum of sensing acts presupposes temporal continuity rather than explaining it, making the account circular.
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    • 2.The Modest Continuity Thesis requires an explanatory grounding for gaplessness, not merely its structural description.
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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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