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    If cognition is self-luminous and self-certifying, its ar... — Carmelics
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    If cognition is self-luminous and self-certifying, its arising requires no external cause beyond prior karmic seeds in the ālayavijñāna.

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    • 1.Consciousness requires no external validation; its occurrence is directly evident to itself without mediation or proof.
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    • 2.Karmic seeds in ālayavijñāna provide sufficient causal mechanism for cognitive arising without appeal to external generators.
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    • 3.Self-luminosity explains why cognition doesn't require external observer; it manifests its own reality through its nature.
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    • 1.Self-luminosity claims cognition proves itself, yet circularity remains: cognition cannot certify its own epistemic reliability.
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    • 2.Karmic seeds themselves require origin; ālayavijñāna doesn't escape causation, merely relocates the explanatory burden elsewhere.
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    • 3.Sensory input demonstrably affects cognition; denying external causal factors contradicts observable dependence on environment.
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