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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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