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    The specious present of the Extensional model conforms to... — Carmelics
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    The specious present of the Extensional model conforms to James's characterization of a duration-block.

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    • 1.James characterized a duration-block as feeling the interval of time as a whole, with its two ends embedded in it, rather than feeling one end and then the other successively.
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    • 2.The Extensional model's specious present is experienced as a whole with its successive constituents simultaneously embedded in it.
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    • 1.James's duration-block requires that temporal succession be phenomenally felt as such, not merely represented as an abstract structural property.
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    • 2.The Extensional model's simultaneous embedding of successive constituents collapses the felt directionality of succession into a static co-presence.
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    • 3.A genuinely Jamesian duration-block cannot be replicated by any model that renders temporal asymmetry as a synchronic structural feature rather than a live phenomenal flow.
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    • 1.Husserl's critique of naive retention models shows that treating a temporal interval as a unified whole risks conflating the intentional act of time-consciousness with its immanent temporal object.
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    • 2.James's duration-block, read through Husserl's framework, describes an intentional achievement of synthesis, not a pre-given specious present with co-present parts.
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    • 3.The Extensional model's specious present smuggles in a reified temporal container that James's phenomenological account explicitly sought to dissolve.
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    As we saw in §2.5, in characterizing his presence-time, Stern held that experiences unfolding over an interval of time can “form a unified and complex act of consciousness regardless of the non-simultaneity of individual parts.” Since the successive phases of the specious present depicted in Figure 5 do form a unified ensemble, they clearly conform to Stern’s conception of a presence-time. James sometimes referred to the specious present a duration-block, which he characterized thus: ‘We do not
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