1 Wundt and his students concluded that the duration of our immediate consciousness of successive impressions varies from five to twelve seconds, depending on our manner of grouping the strokes and on the length of the intervals between the successive components of the whole.² James took these conclusions as a confirmation of his theory of the "specious present" an expression that he borrowed from the work of a little remembered writer, E. R. Clay, who had claimed that the experienced present "..is really a part of the past — a recent past given as being a time that intervenes between the [obvious] past and the future".³" /> James and Husserl - Cobb-Stevens Richard | sdvig press