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    Challenges→A timeless being doesn't change.

    Differing cognitive states across engagements constitute a form of change even if no temporal succession underlies them.

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    • 1.Change requires only a difference between states, not temporal succession between them.
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    • 2.Cognitive states at different engagements are genuinely distinct mental configurations, not identical.
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    • 3.Mathematical objects exhibit structural differences without time; cognition may similarly be atemporal.
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    • 1.Change traditionally means one state transitioning to another, requiring temporal ordering to be meaningful.
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    • 2.Different cognitive states across engagements are separate events occurring at different times, undermining the claim.
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    • 3.Calling achronic differences 'change' equivocates on the term and obscures rather than clarifies the phenomenon.
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