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    Challenges→The objection that karma across lives requires a transmigrating self to justify desert can be resolved by rejecting the assumption that persons are ultimately real entities that bear moral properties like desert.

    If psychological continuity grounds karma across lives without a transmigrating self, then interrupted or branching continuity chains produce indeterminate desert attributions that the Buddhist account cannot adjudicate.

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    Key Terms

    Adjudicate(describing what functionalism can or cannot do regarding the disagreement)
    To judge, decide, or settle a dispute between two competing views.
    Branching continuity chains(as used in metaphysics and personal identity debates)
    A scenario where psychological continuity splits into multiple paths (like one person's memories and identity splitting into several different people), making it unclear which version is the original person.
    Buddhist account(as used in comparative philosophy)
    The explanation or theory offered by Buddhist philosophy on a particular topic.
    Desert (moral desert)(as used in ethics and justice)
    What someone deserves, especially in terms of reward or punishment based on their actions.
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    (as used in metaphysics)
    To serve as the foundation or fundamental reason for something; to explain why something is true or real.
    Indeterminate(Reichenbach's three-valued quantum logic)
    The value of propositions that quantum theory implies cannot be assessed to be either true or false
    Transmigrating self(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    The belief that some unchanging part of you (your soul or consciousness) moves from one body to another across different lifetimes.
    karma(Yogācāra Buddhist philosophy)
    Collective mental actions of all beings that produce and shape the experienced world.
    psychological continuity(Philosophy of personal identity)
    A relation holding between a person at one time and a being at a later time when the later being inherits the memories, intentions, beliefs, and psychological states of the earlier person.

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