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    Consciousness falls outside the scope of negation. — Carmelics
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    Consciousness falls outside the scope of negation.

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    • 1.Negation of consciousness presupposes the existence of consciousness to perform the negation.
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    • 2.Consciousness cannot admit its own antecedent negation.
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    • 3.Any act of denial is itself an expression of consciousness.
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    • 1.Dreamless sleep and general anesthesia present phenomenological gaps where consciousness appears genuinely absent, not merely unwitnessed.
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    • 2.The self-referential argument that negation requires consciousness commits a use-mention fallacy: the act of negating need not itself be conscious.
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    • 3.Buddhaghosa and Vasubandhu's Abhidharma traditions document discrete mind-moments arising and ceasing, making consciousness a contingent, negatable process rather than a permanent substrate.
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    • 1.Metzinger's no-self model demonstrates that 'consciousness' may be a representational construct with no owner, making it as negatable as any other mental content.
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    • 2.The performative self-refutation argument assumes that negation must be phenomenally conscious, but functionalist and eliminativist accounts allow negation as a non-phenomenal computational state.
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    Witnessing consciousness is elusive because it is unobjectifiable. It escapes our attention because it stands behind cognitive intentionality and cannot attend to itself. One cannot isolate the witness by pulling it to one side and objects to another, for in drawing a line between the two, both become objects of consciousness. Consciousness cannot become an objective content of consciousness. If one infers that this non-finding of consciousness is evidence of its non-existence, Śaṅkara counters
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