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    Our effectiveness as agents depends on our not continuing to experience a transient state of affairs once information from it has been absorbed.

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    • 1.Incoming information, once registered, must move into memory to make way for more up-to-date information.
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    • 2.Although things change slowly relative to the speed of light or sound, they do change.
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    • 3.We cannot afford to be simultaneously processing conflicting information.
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    • 1.William James's 'specious present' demonstrates that consciousness inherently integrates persisting temporal windows, not discrete snapshot registrations.
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    • 2.Effective action often requires sustained perceptual dwelling—a musician tracking a phrase or a hunter tracking motion cannot function on instantaneous registrations alone.
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    • 3.The claim confuses the functional role of memory consolidation with the phenomenological structure of experience, which legitimately overlaps past and present.
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    • 1.Husserl's retention-protention structure shows that the 'just-past' remains phenomenally present as constitutive of temporal object perception, not as inefficiency.
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    • 2.Agents perceiving moving objects, spoken words, or melodies require retentional continuity within experience itself, meaning lingering experience is constitutive of agency, not contrary to it.
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    There seems no logical reason why we should not directly experience the distant past. We could appeal to the principle that there can be no action at a temporal distance, so that something distantly past can only causally affect us via more proximate events. But this is inadequate justification. We can only perceive a spatially distant tree by virtue of its effects on items in our vicinity (light reflected off the tree impinging on our retinas), but this is not seen by those who espouse a direct
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