In the Discrete Block model, tones C and D are diachronically co-conscious (within specious present SP1), and tones E and F are diachronically co-conscious (within specious present SP2), but tones D and E each occur in distinct specious presents and share no specious present.
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
tones C, D, E, F(as used in this philosophical example)
Different musical notes used as an example to illustrate how consciousness groups some sounds together and separates others.
PT-realists are agreed that change and succession feature in our immediate experience. To be viable on the phenomenological level, a realist account of how this is possible must not just capture some of the change that it is plausible to suppose we directly experience, it must capture all of it. Let us suppose that C-D-E-F in Figure 7 are brief tones that are heard in succession. Given that this sequence is a typical one – with no sudden or massive disruptions in the listener’s consciousness ove