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    Challenges→Our beliefs about change and continuity in experience are false

    It is impossible to provide an intelligible account of how we can be directly aware of change or movement

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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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