Specious Present, Phenomenal Extension, and Mereological Inversion: A Problem for Physicalism about the Mind
Journal of Consciousness Studies March 31, 2023 Lyu Zhou
The specious present (James, 1890/1950) is the phenomenal temporal structure of the representational content of my present experience. This article is a study of the mereological structure of the specious present and what it reveals about the nature of the mind. I argue that the specious present has certain features that cannot be easily explained within the framework of physicalism about the...