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    Challenges→The appearance of phenomena depends upon empirical awareness (vijñāna), while consciousness itself arises in dependence upon the sense organ and the physical object.

    If consciousness arises dependently from a physical object it cannot cognize, then the claim that appearances depend on empirical awareness conflates causal genesis with intentional content.

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    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Intentional content(Rey 2006: 242)
    Whatever we understand x to be when we use the idiom 'representation of x' but there is no real x
    arises dependently(as used in metaphysics)
    Comes into existence because of something else; depends on something for its creation or existence. Like how a shadow arises dependently from an object blocking light.
    causal genesis(as used in metaphysics)
    The process of how something is caused to come into existence; the origin story of why something was created or started.
    cognize(as used in epistemology)

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    To know, perceive, or become aware of something through thought or the senses.
    consciousness(Philosophy of mind; framing the 'What is consciousness?' question)
    A dynamic process characterized by self-transforming flow, intentional coherence, and semantic self-understanding, rather than a static or momentary state.
    empirical awareness(as used in epistemology)
    Knowledge or perception based on direct experience and observation of the world, rather than pure reason or imagination.

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