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    Experience is essentially subjectively dynamic. — Carmelics
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    Experience is essentially subjectively dynamic.

    Consciousness & MindPerception
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    • 1.The briefest experiences we can conceive or imagine always contain some element of change or passage.
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    • 2.If the minimal conceivable experience contains change, then change is an essential feature of experience rather than an optional one.
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    • 1.The conceivability of change within minimal experience may reflect limits of human imagination rather than necessary features of experience as such.
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    • 2.Galen Strawson's arguments for 'thin' momentary subjects of experience suggest that pure, static experiential 'pulses' are coherently conceivable.
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    • 3.If a static experiential pulse is coherently conceivable, the argument from minimal conceivable experience fails to establish that dynamism is essential.
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    • 1.Dretske and Tye's representationalist accounts hold that phenomenal character is fully determined by instantaneous intentional content.
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    • 2.If a complete phenomenal state can be individuated at a durationless instant, subjective dynamism is an optional feature, not an essential one.
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    Still more recently, Pelczar has argued (2010a, 2010b) that the Extensional model rests on an inadequate conception of the temporal microstructure of consciousness. An Extensional specious present is a chunk of experiencing which extends over a second or so of ordinary time, so it will inevitably possesses temporal parts – the still briefer chunks of experiencing of which it is composed – and the briefest of these parts will be strictly momentary episodes of experiencing. Since on the Extensiona
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