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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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