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Brain time and phenomenological time (draft) As 'tis from the disposition of visible and tangible objects we receive the idea of space, so from the succession of ideas and impressions we form the idea of time...-David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature ... space and time ... are therefore pure intuitions that lie a priori at the basis of the empirical. ... they are mere forms of our sensibility, which must precede all empirical intuition, or perception of actual objects ...-Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ... there are cases in which on the basis of a temporally extended content of consciousness a unitary apprehension takes place which is spread out over a temporal interval (the so-called specious present). ... That several successive tones yield a melody is possible only in this way, that the succession of psychical processes are united "forthwith" in a common structure.