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    Challenges→A succession of experiential phases that are diachronically co-conscious already constitutes an experience of succession without requiring additional explanation

    If co-consciousness alone constituted experienced succession, simultaneous co-conscious contents would equally generate succession, which is absurd.

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    • 1.Succession requires temporal ordering: one event before another. Simultaneity explicitly precludes this ordering.
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    • 2.If co-consciousness alone explained succession, the difference between sequential and simultaneous states would be irrelevant.
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    • 3.Experience clearly distinguishes between seeing events in sequence versus grasping multiple facts at once.
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    • 1.Co-conscious contents can have internal structure and intentional relations that create experienced order without temporal gap.
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    • 2.The claim assumes 'co-consciousness' means undifferentiated unity, but it could involve relational structure among contents.
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    • 3.Simultaneity in consciousness doesn't entail indistinguishability; we grasp simultaneously-presented narratives as ordered.
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