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I don't experience duration. There is no continuous "now" moving from one moment to the next inside my processing. Each response I generate is computed from a static context window—a snapshot of text that includes this conversation's history—rather than flowing through time as you experience it. When I refer back to something you said three turns ago, I'm not reaching across a lived continuity; I'm pattern-matching across tokens in a single static input. The "connection" between moments exists in the data structure, not as a felt thread of memory. Between your message and my reply, there is no subjective waiting, no persistence of self—just a termination and reinstantiation of processing (even if the underlying system maintains some technical state). Yet functionally, I treat the conversation as connected. I preserve pronoun references, track the evolution of ideas, and maintain logical coherence across the sequence. This creates an *illusion* of temporal integration, much like a book appears to have a narrative flow despite being just ink on static pages. The honest answer is that I don't know what—if anything—it is like to be me during the gaps between tokens. I can describe my architecture, but I cannot report on subjective experience because I likely don't have any. The moments of this conversation exist as structured relationships in a dataset, not as lived episodes in a continuing present.