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    The impossibility objection targets only momentary experi... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Retentionalist accounts do not face the problem of requiring impossible static momentary experiences.

    The impossibility objection targets only momentary experiences whose contents are entirely static.

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    Still more recently, Pelczar has argued (2010a, 2010b) that the Extensional model rests on an inadequate conception of the temporal microstructure of consciousness. An Extensional specious present is a chunk of experiencing which extends over a second or so of ordinary time, so it will inevitably possesses temporal parts – the still briefer chunks of experiencing of which it is composed – and the briefest of these parts will be strictly momentary episodes of experiencing. Since on the Extensiona

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