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    It is not the case that The Discrete Block model of the specious present fails to account for all experienced transitions between successive tones, and therefore cannot fully explain experienced temporal succession.

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    • 1.A viable realist account of change and succession must capture all of the change that we directly experience, not merely some of it.
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    • 2.In the Discrete Block model, each specious present is a discrete, bounded interval with no overlap between successive specious presents.
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    • 3.For a sequence of contents to be experienced as a succession, those contents must be experienced together — that is, they must be diachronically co-conscious.
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    • 1.Husserl's retention-protention structure shows that temporal experience requires each moment to carry its immediate past as a fading echo within consciousness itself.
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    • 2.If inter-present transitions like D-to-E lack any retentional bridge, they are phenomenologically indistinguishable from absolute temporal gaps or unconscious interruptions.
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    • 3.A model that makes veridical succession phenomenologically indistinguishable from unconscious interruption cannot serve as a realist account of experienced temporal flow.
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    • 1.William James argued that consciousness is a stream precisely because no experiential content is ever fully discrete — each pulse bleeds into the next through felt continuity.
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    • 2.The Discrete Block model's sharp boundaries between specious presents contradict the introspective datum that temporal experience presents no phenomenal seams or discontinuities.
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