The Memory Corruption Account: This account claims that there is no delay between the brain's representation of the circles and the first conscious experience of them. Initially, the experience is of two circles separated in time and distance with nothing interposed between. But immediately thereafter the experience is recorded in short term memory so as to include the fleeting interposition and the sense of motion that comes with it. So, immediately upon having the experience, one's identification and interpretation of it includes a sense of motion, and the answer to the question, "what was that?" is "a circle moving from one point to another." There is no memory of the initial experience which lacked a sense of motion.

 

T1 = Brain representation and consciousness of the left circle.

T2 = Brain representation and consciousness of the the absence of any circles.

T3 = Brain representation and consciousness of the of the right circle.

T4 = Storage into short term memory of a circle moving from one point to another.

T5 = Remembrance of the left circle.

T6 = Remembrance of something between the two circles.

T7 = Remembrance of the right circle.

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