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    If perceiving-as-present is a feature of the specious pre... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The fact that we only ever perceive what is past does not by itself explain what it is to perceive something as present rather than as past.

    If perceiving-as-present is a feature of the specious present as a whole, then the pastness of any single perceived item is absorbed into an interval that is itself phenomenally present, dissolving the explanatory gap the claim identifies.

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    Phenomenally present(in describing types of conscious experience)
    Something you are consciously experiencing or aware of in a subjective, felt way.
    explanatory gap(Central concept in anti-physicalist arguments)
    The alleged in-principle inability to intelligibly explain how consciousness arises from physical processes
    pastness(Reid's taxonomy of mental states by temporal character)
    The special temporal quality represented in memories, marking their content as having occurred at a prior time.
    specious present(Retentionalist theory of time-consciousness)
    A unit of conscious temporal experience that encompasses an apparent duration (e.g., roughly one second), within which change and succession are phenomenally present

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