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    Challenges→Retentional models have a distinct advantage over Extensional models in accommodating temporal illusions such as the flash-lag effect and the phi-phenomenon.

    Retentional models, by embedding temporal flow within the structure of each conscious moment, generate their own explanatory burden: they must account for why retentional content of a moving stimulus coheres rather than producing smearing or doubling artifacts.

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    Conscious moment(as used in philosophy of mind)
    A single instant of awareness or experience—the smallest unit of what it feels like to be conscious right now.
    Explanatory burden(the philosophical problem being discussed)
    The responsibility to explain or justify something—if you move a problem from one place to another without really solving it, you've just relocated the explanatory burden.
    Retentional content(philosophy of time and perception)
    The information or experience that your memory holds onto from a moment that just passed—like the echo of a sound you heard a second ago.
    Retentional models(in philosophy of time and perception)
    A theory about how our brains hold onto memories of things we just perceived a moment ago, so we can experience events as connected over a short stretch of time rather than isolated snapshots.

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    Smearing or doubling artifacts(as used in explaining potential problems with how consciousness perceives movement)
    Visual or perceptual glitches where movement either blurs together into a messy streak or appears to create duplicate images instead of smooth motion.
    Temporal flow(as the phenomenon in question)
    The sense that time moves or passes—that the present moment continuously becomes the past while new moments arrive; the feeling that time isn't static.

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