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    No experience is possible that does not essentially and inseparably contain both the agency of event and the agency of repeatability.

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    • 1.The present experience is an event insofar as it is singular and unrepeatable.
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    • 2.The present experience is not an event insofar as it is repeatable through memory and anticipation.
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    • 3.These two characteristics — singularity and repeatability — obtain simultaneously in every present experience.
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    • 1.Pure immediacy experiences, such as the specious present described by William James, may be constituted prior to any retentional or protentional structure.
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    • 2.If a moment of raw sensory shock (e.g., sudden intense pain) is apprehended before memory-structure is operative, repeatability is not a co-constitutive feature but a subsequent addition.
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    • 3.Therefore, at least some experiences are possible whose essential structure is singular eventhood without the simultaneous agency of repeatability.
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    • 1.Husserl's account of internal time-consciousness grounds retention and protention in the living present, making repeatability a phenomenological achievement rather than a transcendental necessity.
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    • 2.If repeatability is achieved rather than necessary, then a degraded or pathological consciousness (as in severe anterograde amnesia studied by Tulving) can sustain episodes of experience without operative repeatability-structure.
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    • 3.Derrida's claim that both agencies are inseparable thus conflates an empirically contingent coupling with a constitutive necessity.
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    So, let us start with the simplest argument that we can formulate. If we reflect on experience in general, what we cannot deny is that experience is conditioned by time. Every experience, necessarily, takes place in the present. In the present experience, there is the kernel or point of the now. What is happening right now is a kind of event, different from every other now I have ever experienced. Yet, also in the present, I remember the recent past and I anticipate what is about to happen. The
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