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It is not the case that Therefore, the 'now' of hearing-oneself-speak is never a pure coincidence of emission and reception but a synthesis across temporal difference.
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Neural processing of self-generated speech may synchronize emission and perception through predictive feedback loops, creating effective simultaneity.
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The claim conflates physical temporal gap with phenomenological presence; the 'now' of experience need not match objective event timing.
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If all 'nows' require synthesis across difference, the claim becomes unfalsifiable and tells us nothing unique about hearing-oneself-speak specifically.
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Sound production and auditory reception are physically distinct events separated by propagation time, however minimal.
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Consciousness synthesizes successive moments into unified experience, meaning 'now' is always a constructed temporal unity.
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Self-awareness requires reflexive distance—pure simultaneity between speaker and listener-self would collapse the distinction needed for self-consciousness.
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