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    It is not the case that The Abhidharma conflates the empirical self, which may be reducible to aggregates, with the transcendental subject that is a necessary precondition for any phenomenal decomposition.

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    • 1.Abhidharma explicitly rejects any transcendental subject as metaphysically incoherent; empirical aggregates suffice to explain consciousness without remainder.
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    • 2.Modern cognitive science demonstrates that unified experience emerges from distributed neural processes without requiring a separate transcendental observer.
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    • 3.Abhidharma's aggregates include mental factors and consciousness itself; no external transcendental subject is needed beyond their functional relationships.
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    • 1.Empirical analysis of mental phenomena requires a unified observer; without transcendental unity, the aggregates lack coherent phenomenal organization.
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    • 2.Abhidharma's reductive atomism cannot account for the intentionality binding disparate dharmas into coherent experiences without presupposing a subject.
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    • 3.The very act of decomposing experience into aggregates logically presupposes a standpoint from which decomposition occurs—a transcendental vantage point.
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