Arguably, such a comparison would involve immediate apprehension of your current qualia and your memories of past qualia, but not the past qualia itself.
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It is the capacity for, process of, or result of discursive thinking, in contrast with the immediate apprehension that is characteristic of noesis.
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In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact.
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Assault is the apprehension of the possibility of immediate unlawful violence, and battery that of the infliction of such violence.
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This is significant in an evolutionary sense, because we big-brained creatures fret about the future and our immediate circumstances, which can lead to apprehension and depression.