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    It is not the case that Buddhist Abhidharma analysis resolves the living body into momentary dharmas (psychophysical events) with no persistent substratum requiring a self.

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    • 1.Momentary dharmas cannot account for continuity of memory, personal identity, and causal responsibility across time periods.
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    • 2.The analysis itself presupposes a unified observer capable of analyzing dharmas—implicitly requiring the self it denies.
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    • 3.Physical science demonstrates that stability, not mere flux, characterizes material systems and biological organisms.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Empirical introspection reveals no stable, unchanging conscious subject—only successive moments of experience arising and dissolving.
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    • 2.A persistent self would require independence from physical processes, yet consciousness correlates entirely with neural activity patterns.
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    • 3.Positing momentary dharmas eliminates the hard problem of explaining how an immaterial self causally interacts with the body.
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