William James's notion of the stream of consciousness entails that any artificial segmentation of experience into discrete temporal atoms falsifies the continuous, flowing character that is phenomenologically primary.

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Discrete temporal atoms(as the false way of dividing experience): Tiny, separate, individual moments of time—the idea that time is made up of distinct, disconnected instants rather than one continuous flow.
Phenomenologically primary(as describing the fundamental character of consciousness as we actually experience it): The way things actually appear to us in lived experience, before we analyze or think about them—what seems most real and basic from the inside.
Segmentation(as applied to experience being divided artificially): Dividing or breaking something into separate pieces or sections.
William James(the philosopher being discussed): An American philosopher (1842-1910) who founded a school of thought called pragmatism, which judges ideas by whether they work in real life rather than whether they're theoretically perfect.

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