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    Denying motion in the present conflates the mathematical ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Motion is never taking place in the present moment

    Denying motion in the present conflates the mathematical abstraction of an instantaneous point with the lived, physically real present interval.

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    • 1.Physics describes instantaneous states, but conscious experience spans finite durations; conflating these domains mistakes mathematical tools for ontology.
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    • 2.Motion requires temporal extension to be intelligible; a point-instant cannot contain velocity, acceleration, or change of any kind.
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    • 3.The specious present—a measurable psychological interval—is phenomenologically real and physically causally relevant to perception and action.
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    • 1.The 'present interval' objection merely relocates the boundary problem; any finite interval contains sub-intervals where motion again becomes mysterious.
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    • 2.Physics successfully describes motion using instantaneous velocities (derivatives); appeal to 'lived experience' conflates epistemology with metaphysics.
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    • 3.Grounding motion in extended present intervals requires explaining what makes that interval fundamental rather than arbitrarily chosen.
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