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    It is not the case that The connection that is the emergent cause of desire is specified (delimited) by the living body

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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