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    William James's requirement for temporal consciousness de... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Broad's model does not clearly meet the requirements of the Strong Continuity Thesis

    William James's requirement for temporal consciousness demands a 'transitive' felt passage, which discrete Broadian acts cannot generate from their mere succession.

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    • 1.Consciousness of duration requires phenomenal continuity, not just successive discrete states, to feel like genuine temporal flow.
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    • 2.Broadian discrete acts, by definition atomistic, cannot ground the felt sense of 'passing through' time that James emphasized.
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    • 3.James's stream of consciousness model empirically reflects how experience presents itself—as continuous, not as concatenated moments.
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    • 1.Sufficient density and proper causal-representational relations between discrete acts can generate experienced continuity without actual continuity.
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    • 2.The 'felt passage' James describes may be a cognitive construct overlaid on discrete neural events, not proof of genuinely continuous consciousness.
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    • 3.Modern neuroscience shows consciousness operates through discrete neuronal firing patterns, suggesting discrete-act models better fit empirical reality.
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