Dainton's 'Extensional' view establishes that conscious experience itself has genuine temporal extension, with earlier and later phases directly co-experienced within a specious present.

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Co-experienced(as how earlier and later phases are perceived within consciousness): Experienced together at the same time as a unified whole, rather than as separate, disconnected moments.
Dainton(as the originator of the overlap model being discussed): Barry Dainton is a contemporary philosopher who studies how we experience time and consciousness, particularly focusing on how moments of experience connect together.
Extensional view(as Dainton's specific philosophical position about consciousness): A theory arguing that conscious experience has real duration—meaning it actually stretches across time rather than being frozen at a single instant.
specious present(Retentionalist theory of time-consciousness): A unit of conscious temporal experience that encompasses an apparent duration (e.g., roughly one second), within which change and succession are phenomenally present

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