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    Retentions must be a distinctive and not commonly recogni... — Carmelics
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    Retentions must be a distinctive and not commonly recognised form of experience, different from ordinary memories.

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    • 1.Retentions re-present the past, as memories do, but must be more vivid than ordinary memories to fulfil their role in grounding immediate experience of change.
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    • 2.Ordinary memory-images of perceiving an event (e.g. recalling the sight and sound of a falling tree) are qualitatively distinct from the immediate perception of that event — lacking its sharpness, vividness, and externality.
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    • 3.It is not plausible to suppose that ordinary memory-images are responsible for our immediate experience of change.
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    • 1.Ordinary short-term memory (working memory) operates on timescales of milliseconds to seconds, directly overlapping with the window required for change perception.
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    • 2.Psychologists like Baddeley demonstrate working memory sustains vivid, action-guiding representations indistinguishable in functional role from Husserl's retentions.
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    • 3.Positing retentions as a sui generis experiential kind violates parsimony when existing cognitive science accounts for the same phenomena without novel ontological commitments.
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    • 1.William James's 'specious present' account holds that immediate temporal experience involves a direct, non-representational apprehension of a brief duration as a whole.
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    • 2.If the specious present is genuinely perceived as an extended now rather than reconstructed from retained traces, retentions as re-presentational acts become explanatorily redundant.
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    • 3.The vividness differential between retention and ordinary memory can be explained by the specious present's width varying with attention, without invoking a categorically distinct experiential kind.
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    Given the requirements of realism, what characteristics must retentions themselves possess? Retentions are akin to memories in that they re-present the past, but to fulfil the task required of them they must be more vivid than ordinary memories. We all know what it is like to call up a memory of seeing and hearing the falling of a tree; we all know what it is like to actually see and hear the falling of a tree. In the case of the former there is a visual and acoustic mental images. In the latter
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