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    Challenges→Ordinary talk of 'seeing' things move is intelligible on its own terms.

    If retentional consciousness is a theoretical posit required to explain temporal perception, then ordinary talk of 'seeing movement' is not self-explanatory but depends on a non-obvious phenomenological mechanism.

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    Phenomenological(describing the approach to studying self-awareness in this debate)
    Related to phenomenology, the philosophical study of what it's actually like to experience things and how consciousness works from the inside.
    Retentional consciousness(as used in philosophy of perception)
    The mind's ability to hold onto and be aware of something that just happened a moment ago, even though it's no longer directly in front of you.
    Self-explanatory(as used in epistemology)
    Clear and obvious enough that it doesn't need additional explanation or justification.
    Temporal perception(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The way you experience time passing and perceive events as happening before, after, or at the same moment as each other.
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