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    Supports→The Extensional model of the specious present is inadequate because it rests on an inadequate conception of the temporal microstructure of consciousness.

    If momentary stream-phases were genuinely contentful, they would require their own internal temporal structure to represent even a static quality, generating a vicious regress of micro-presents.

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    Static quality(contrasted with intentionality to show why intentionality is different)
    A fixed, unchanging property or characteristic that just sits there in something, like the redness of an apple or the hardness of a rock.
    contentful(philosophy of mind)
    Having meaning or information; capable of representing or being about something.
    internal temporal structure(metaphysics/philosophy of time)
    Built-in time relationships within something—like how a moment would need to contain earlier and later parts within itself.
    micro-presents(philosophy of time)
    Tiny, extremely small moments of 'now' that would theoretically exist within larger moments.
    represent(explaining the relationship between ideas and objects)

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    To stand in for or correspond to something else; in this case, how a thought in your mind can be about an object without physically containing it.
    stream-phases(philosophy of mind)
    Individual moments or slices of consciousness—like single frames in a movie of your experience.
    vicious regress(Used by Ryle as a reductio against intellectualist accounts of intelligence)
    An explanatory regress in which each explanatory step requires a further step of the same kind, preventing the explanation from ever being completed.

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