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    The qualitative difference between second-hand and hour-h... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We perceive motion directly rather than inferring it from memory of past positions.

    The qualitative difference between second-hand and hour-hand cases reflects a threshold of retentional decay, not the absence of memory-like processes.

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    • 1.Phenomenologically, both second and hour hands exhibit continuous causal influence on present perception, differing only in decay rate, not kind.
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    • 2.Neuroscientific evidence suggests retention operates on a spectrum; arbitrary cutoffs between 'memory' and 'non-memory' lack principled justification.
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    • 3.If we deny memory-like processes for hour-hand cases, we must arbitrarily specify where retention becomes 'real' memory, creating indefensible boundaries.
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    • 1.Second-hand cases involve active neural encoding and consolidation; hour-hand cases may rely on passive physical persistence without cognitive mechanisms.
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    • 2.Calling decay-based differences 'thresholds' rather than categorical distinctions obscures whether the underlying processes are genuinely comparable.
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    • 3.Memory-like processes typically involve retrieval and reconstruction; mere temporal persistence without these features may not constitute memory at all.
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