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    Therefore the specious present cannot be identified with ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The specious present of a continuous act of sensing is the largest stretch of content apprehended by every phase of that act.

    Therefore the specious present cannot be identified with the intersection D alone, since retentional consciousness continuously revises what each phase apprehends.

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    • 1.Retention continuously integrates past moments, so what we apprehend at any instant includes revised understanding from prior phases.
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    • 2.A static intersection point cannot account for the dynamic flow of consciousness that characterizes lived temporal experience.
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    • 3.If the present were merely point D, we could not explain how we grasp temporal relations (succession, duration) within a single conscious act.
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    • 1.Revision of apprehension doesn't prove the present extends beyond D; it only shows memory operates recursively on D's content.
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    • 2.Conflating the structure of consciousness with the structure of time conflates epistemology with ontology; the present may still be instantaneous.
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    • 3.Continuous revision suggests phases alter interpretation of D retrospectively, not that D itself contains multiple temporal locations.
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