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    If we believe our immediate experience exhibits continuit... — Carmelics
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    If we believe our immediate experience exhibits continuity and embraces change, it is because change and continuity are genuinely features of our experience

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    • 1.Beliefs about the character of experience are informed by introspective findings
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    • 2.Introspection reveals change and continuity as features of our experience
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    • 1.Introspection is systematically unreliable and can misrepresent the actual structure of experience, as Schwitzgebel's empirical work on introspective error demonstrates.
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    • 2.The phenomenal appearance of continuity in experience may be a retrospective cognitive construction rather than a direct read-off of experience's actual features.
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    • 1.Dennett's heterophenomenology establishes that what subjects sincerely believe about their experience does not entail that those features are genuinely instantiated in the experience itself.
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    • 2.The inference from 'believed to be a feature of experience' to 'is genuinely a feature of experience' conflates the intentional object of belief with the metaphysical character of the experience.
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    Introspection reveals change and continuity as features of our experie...89%When one has an experience of smooth continuous change, that experienc...84%Our beliefs about change and continuity in experience are false82%The constantly changing character of our experience as-of the present ...81%

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    In response realists will fully accept that we believe that change and continuity (of the Modest and/or Strong forms) are features of our immediate experience. What they are unlikely to accept is the proposal that (in effect) these features of our experience reduce to these beliefs. They will claim – and on the face of it, plausibly – that we know there is more to our consciousness than our beliefs about our consciousness. We know this because we have direct introspective access to the content a
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