If the specious present is genuinely perceived as an extended now rather than reconstructed from retained traces, retentions as re-presentational acts become explanatorily redundant.
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Mental actions where you bring something back to mind or represent it again, rather than experiencing it directly in the present moment.
retained traces(in philosophy of consciousness and memory)
Memories or leftover impressions of things you've just experienced that your mind holds onto briefly.
retentions(Used in the context of a realist theory of time-consciousness)
A distinctive form of experience that re-presents the immediate past, more vivid than ordinary memories, and required to account for the immediate perception of change and temporal succession.
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