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    It is not the case that The Extensional model of the specious present is inadequate because it rests on an inadequate conception of the temporal microstructure of consciousness.

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    • 1.An Extensional specious present is a chunk of experiencing that extends over a second or so of ordinary time and therefore possesses temporal parts.
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    • 2.The briefest temporal parts of an Extensional specious present are strictly momentary episodes of experiencing.
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    • 3.On the Extensional model, it takes an interval of time to experience change or succession, so momentary stream-phases cannot contain any experience of change.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenological analysis shows that retention is not mere memory but a constitutive feature of the living present itself, making any purely extensional decomposition phenomenologically inadequate.
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    • 2.If momentary stream-phases were genuinely contentful, they would require their own internal temporal structure to represent even a static quality, generating a vicious regress of micro-presents.
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    • 3.The intentional arc of consciousness binds past and present in a single act of presentation, which the Extensional model's additive summation of atomic moments cannot capture without distorting the unity of temporal experience.
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    • 1.William James's notion of the stream of consciousness entails that any artificial segmentation of experience into discrete temporal atoms falsifies the continuous, flowing character that is phenomenologically primary.
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    • 2.Neuroscientific evidence from studies of apparent motion (e.g., Kolers and von Grünau) demonstrates that the brain retroactively constructs temporal order, which presupposes a holistic temporal window irreducible to summed momentary states.
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