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    The fact that we only ever perceive what is past does not... — Carmelics
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    The fact that we only ever perceive what is past does not by itself explain what it is to perceive something as present rather than as past.

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    • 1.Perceiving the present and perceiving something as present are distinct.
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    • 2.Showing that all perceived items are past concerns what is perceived, not how it is perceived (as present or as past).
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    • 1.The phenomenal character of 'nowness' is constituted by the causal-informational recency of the signal, not by a separate representational layer.
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    • 2.If what makes content feel present is its position in a causal hierarchy relative to other signals, then the pastness of the physical cause fully explains presentness as a relational property.
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    • 3.Husserl's retentional structure shows that 'as present' is simply the limiting case of retention with zero elapsed interval, reducible to temporal indexing within the same explanatory framework.
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    • 1.Dainton's extensional view holds that conscious experience itself spans a brief temporal interval, so the 'as present' quality attaches to the experienced interval, not to an instant.
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    • 2.If perceiving-as-present is a feature of the specious present as a whole, then the pastness of any single perceived item is absorbed into an interval that is itself phenomenally present, dissolving the explanatory gap the claim identifies.
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    The previous section indicated the importance of distinguishing between perceiving the present and perceiving something as present. We may perceive as present items that are past. Indeed, given the finite speed of the transmission of both light and sound (and the finite speed of transmission of information from receptors to brain), it seems that we only ever perceive what is past. However, this does not by itself tell us what it is to perceive something as present, rather than as past. Nor does
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