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    Consciousness is not a distinct, self-standing phenomenon. — Carmelics
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    Consciousness is not a distinct, self-standing phenomenon.

    Consciousness & Mind
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    • 1.According to the Nikāyas, consciousness arises and passes away only as a result of the activity of the other psycho-physical elements.
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    • 2.What arises and passes away entirely as a result of other factors lacks independent existence as a distinct phenomenon.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenology demonstrates that consciousness has irreducible intentional structure that constitutes its own domain of being.
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    • 2.Causal dependence on other factors does not entail the absence of ontological distinctness, as water depends on hydrogen and oxygen yet remains a distinct phenomenon.
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    • 3.If consciousness lacks distinct existence, the very awareness by which we cognize dependent origination itself becomes inexplicable, generating a performative contradiction.
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    • 1.Descartes' cogito establishes that consciousness is epistemically prior to all other phenomena, suggesting it is the one candidate for foundational, self-standing existence.
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    • 2.The Vijñānavāda (Yogācāra) school within Buddhism itself argued that vijñāna or ālayavijñāna is the substratum of experience, implying consciousness has primacy over other psycho-physical elements.
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    Thus, the Nikāyas do not offer a comprehensive picture of consciousness as a distinct phenomenon, but only as something that arises and passes away as a result of the activity of all the other psycho-physical elements. Its characteristic aspect is determined by the sensory system with which it happens to be associated. Thus, the distinctive aspect of visual consciousness is determined by the makeup of the visual sense and not by any intrinsic properties of its own.
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