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    The present experience contains both uniqueness (event) and repeatability simultaneously.

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    • 1.What is happening right now is a kind of event different from every other now previously experienced.
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    • 2.In the present, one remembers the recent past and anticipates what is about to happen.
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    • 3.Memory and anticipation consist in repeatability: what is experienced now can be immediately recalled and is therefore repeatable.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenology distinguishes retention (passive givenness of the just-past) from memory (active re-presentation), making retention non-repeatable by definition.
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    • 2.If retention is constitutively different from recollection, then the 'repeatability' in the supporting argument conflates two structurally distinct temporal operations.
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    • 3.Without genuine repeatability in the living present, uniqueness and repeatability cannot be genuinely simultaneous — only sequentially related through distinct acts.
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    • 1.Whitehead's process philosophy holds that each actual occasion perishes absolutely upon completion, making genuine repeatability a category error applied to lived events.
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    • 2.If the present experience is ontologically unrepeatable at the level of actual occasions, then what recurs is an abstraction, not the experience itself, rendering the claim equivocal on 'present experience'.
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    So, let us start with the simplest argument that we can formulate. If we reflect on experience in general, what we cannot deny is that experience is conditioned by time. Every experience, necessarily, takes place in the present. In the present experience, there is the kernel or point of the now. What is happening right now is a kind of event, different from every other now I have ever experienced. Yet, also in the present, I remember the recent past and I anticipate what is about to happen. The
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