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    Seeing a second-hand move is qualitatively different from... — Carmelics
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    Supports→We perceive motion directly rather than inferring it from memory of past positions.

    Seeing a second-hand move is qualitatively different from 'seeing' that an hour-hand has moved.

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    But is it possible to perceive something as extended and as present? If we hear a short phrase of music, we seem to hear the phrase as present, and yet — because it is a phrase rather than a single chord — we also hear the notes as successive, and therefore as extending over an interval. If this does not seem entirely convincing, consider the perception of motion. As Broad (1923) puts it, ‘to see a second-hand moving is quite a different thing from "seeing" that a hour-hand has moved.’ It is not

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