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    The impossibility objection, properly construed by Broad ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Retentionalist accounts do not face the problem of requiring impossible static momentary experiences.

    The impossibility objection, properly construed by Broad and Husserl's critics, targets the static nature of the experiential vehicle, not merely the represented content.

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    • 1.Phenomenal experience exhibits temporal flow and dynamic structure that static representational content alone cannot capture or explain.
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    • 2.The vehicle of experience (consciousness itself) must possess dynamic properties to ground our awareness of change, succession, and process.
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    • 3.Broad and Husserl correctly identified that focusing only on what is represented obscures the fundamental activity constitutive of experiencing.
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    • 1.The distinction between dynamic vehicle and static content may be conceptually unclear or rest on unexamined assumptions about mental causation.
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    • 2.Representationalist accounts can accommodate dynamism through temporal content-structures without requiring non-representational vehicle properties.
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    • 3.The impossibility objection may conflate metaphysical claims about consciousness with epistemic limitations in our current conceptual frameworks.
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