SOC 3312 Chapter 9: SOC 3312 - Chapter 9 (Schultz)
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You only have the ability to view your past, what you already lived through. The other"s stream of conciousness as simultaneous with my own observe a lived experience of my own, you must reflect upon it. You can only observe your own lived experiences after it is over but can observe someone else"s when they are taking place. In a way we are simultaneously co-existing as our streams of consciousness intersect with one another. In other words, it can distinguish them whenever it chose to divide its attention between them, make them distinct from one another. The simultaneous matter is not one that acting upon physical time, it is an assumption that is made in terms of your consciousness to distinguish it from our own. Physical objects have a genuine duree while ours is continuous (e. g. growing old together). When someone is talking to you, you are not only aware of the words but their voice.