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    Challenges→The connection that is the emergent cause of desire is specified (delimited) by the living body

    Desire can arise in disembodied selves (e.g., liberated souls or God in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika theology), so the living body cannot be the necessary specifier.

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    • 1.Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika theology attributes desires to God (īśvara) despite God being incorporeal, demonstrating desire logically independent of embodiment.
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    • 2.If liberated souls (mukta) retain consciousness post-embodiment as these traditions claim, they could possess preferences without physical substrates.
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    • 3.Desire as preference or inclination toward states is conceptually distinct from bodily sensation, so embodiment cannot be its necessary condition.
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    • 1.Theological claims about disembodied beings operate outside empirical verification; we lack phenomenological access to assess whether disembodied desire is coherent.
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    • 2.Even in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, God's 'desire' may be metaphorical—understood as divine intention rather than psychological desire as experienced by embodied beings.
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    • 3.All observed desire in conscious beings arises with embodied nervous systems; disembodied desire remains stipulated rather than demonstrated or explained.
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