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    A unitary enduring self must exist as the subject that un... — Carmelics
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    A unitary enduring self must exist as the subject that unifies cross-modal perceptual judgements.

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    • 1.It is possible to make trans-modality judgements that compare the deliverances of different sense-faculties (e.g., judging that a visually perceived object and a tactilely perceived object are identical).
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    • 2.A trans-modality judgement of the form 'the visually perceived object equals the tactilely perceived object' does not belong to the sphere of any single sense-faculty.
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    • 3.Any judgement must be located in some substance; if it cannot be located in any single sense-faculty, it must be located in another substance.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that introspection reveals only discrete perceptual states, never a unitary subject that owns them.
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    • 2.The unifying function attributed to a permanent self can be fully accounted for by causal and associative relations among mental states themselves.
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    • 3.Positing a substantial self as unifier violates parsimony, since no explanatory work requires it beyond what bundled states with functional connections already provide.
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    • 1.Vasubandhu's Abhidharma analysis shows cross-modal synthesis arises from sequential mental events in a causal stream, requiring no enduring owner.
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    • 2.The Nyāya inference from 'judgement must inhere in a substance' to 'that substance is a permanent self' illicitly assumes the Vaiśeṣika category scheme rather than establishing it.
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    The idea here is that the possibility of recognitive experience presupposes the existence of a unitary enduring self. There are really two arguments compressed here. One is this: I cannot remember an object unless I have seen it earlier—I cannot remember what you have seen (cf. Locke’s account of personal identity in terms of a continuity of memory experiences). The other argument is more intricate. The Abhidharma Buddhist claims that a person is just an aggregate of experiences, some visual, so
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