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    It is not the case that The purported advantage of retentional models in handling temporal illusions thus trades one explanatory problem for another, undermining the claim of distinct advantage.

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    • 1.Retentional models can explain temporal binding and order perception without invoking mysterious phenomenal flow, whereas presentism struggles here.
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    • 2.Trading one problem for a more tractable problem (retention vs. temporal flow) constitutes genuine progress, not mere relocation of difficulty.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'not solving all problems' with 'having no advantage,' when partial solutions in science are standard improvements.
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    • 1.Retentional models substitute the hard problem of perceiving temporal flow with the equally hard problem of explaining retention mechanisms.
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    • 2.Both presentist and retentional accounts face similar difficulties explaining why temporal illusions occur at all, suggesting no real advantage exists.
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    • 3.Claiming advantage requires retentionalism to solve temporal illusions more parsimoniously than alternatives, but it merely relocates explanatory burden.
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