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    Causation must be understood from the perspective of cons... — Carmelics
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    Causation must be understood from the perspective of consciousness rather than from a purely physical or impersonal perspective.

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    • 1.The Buddhist explanatory account is generally pragmatic in orientation.
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    • 2.Consciousness is central to effecting the changes necessary for an individual on the noble eightfold path to make real progress.
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    • 3.An explanatory account of causation should be structured around what is central to the practical goals the account is meant to serve.
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    • 1.Causal relations obtain independently of any observer or experiencer, as evidenced by physical processes preceding the emergence of consciousness.
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    • 2.A pragmatic orientation toward explanation conflates the epistemic utility of a framework with the metaphysical structure of what it describes.
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    • 3.Dharmakirti's own apoha theory grounds valid cognition in causal efficacy (arthakriyasakti), suggesting causation is the criterion for reality, not consciousness its precondition.
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    • 1.Mereological eliminativism, defended by thinkers like Vasubandhu in his Abhidharma phase, entails that dharmas—not mental continuants—are the irreducible causal relata.
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    • 2.If the fundamental bearers of causal power are momentary, mind-independent dharmas, then consciousness is itself causally derived rather than causally foundational.
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    The role of attention in cognition becomes obvious if we take into account the fact that the mere coming together of object, sense faculty, and consciousness is not sufficient for a cognitive event to arise. Rather, cognition occurs only when consciously attending to a given object. In normal circumstances, the senses always process a steady and continuous stream sensory impressions. But this sense data becomes a concrete object of apprehension only when attention is directed toward specifi
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    Mereological eliminativism, defended by thinkers like Vasubandhu in his Abhidhar...
    The Buddhist explanatory account is generally pragmatic in orientation.
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