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The connection that is the emergent cause of desire is sp... — Carmelics

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

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1.The emergent cause of desire is a connection
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2.Every connection is specified by something
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3.If mere connection with a self were sufficient to originate desire without a further specifier, the scope of desire-causation would overextend (yield unacceptable ramifications)
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1.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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2.If the living body is the delimiting condition, post-mortem or liberation-state cognition becomes inexplicable within the same causal framework.
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1.Hume's bundle theory and Śāntarakṣita's Buddhist no-self view both deny a persistent self that could sustain a connection requiring bodily delimitation.
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2.If there is no enduring self distinct from mental states, the posited self-body connection collapses into a regress, making bodily specification explanatorily idle.
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Given that desire has been proved to have an inherent cause (by the inference previously stated, “Desire has origins in an inherent cause, since it is an effect,” we formulate a second inference), being-a-desire occurs in that (namely, desire) which has as emergent cause a connection, since being-a-desire is a universal directly pervaded by the qualityhood-that-occurs-in-specific-qualities-grasped-by-an-eternal-organ (i.e., manas or the organ of hearing), like being-a-sound (soundhood, the unive

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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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