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    The distinctive aspect of visual consciousness is determi... — Carmelics
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    The distinctive aspect of visual consciousness is determined by the makeup of the visual sense, not by any intrinsic properties of visual consciousness itself.

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    • 1.The characteristic aspect of consciousness is determined by the sensory system with which consciousness happens to be associated.
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    • 2.Visual consciousness is associated with the visual sense system.
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    • 1.Visual consciousness has phenomenal properties—qualia such as color and brightness—that are intrinsic to the experience itself, not reducible to sense organ structure.
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    • 2.Inverted spectrum thought experiments show two subjects can share identical visual sense organs yet have systematically different intrinsic conscious experiences.
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    • 3.Therefore, what determines the distinctive character of visual consciousness cannot be fully explained by the makeup of the visual sense alone.
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    • 1.Dignāga and later Dharmakīrti held that consciousness itself, through svasaṃvedana (self-awareness), has an intrinsic reflexive character independent of any particular sensory basis.
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    • 2.If consciousness possesses intrinsic self-luminosity (svaprakāśatā), as argued in Yogācāra and Advaita traditions, then its distinctive aspects partly derive from this internal structure.
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    • 3.The causal dependency of consciousness on a sense organ does not entail that the phenomenal character of that consciousness is constituted by the organ's properties rather than by consciousness's own reflexive nature.
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    Thus, the Nikāyas do not offer a comprehensive picture of consciousness as a distinct phenomenon, but only as something that arises and passes away as a result of the activity of all the other psycho-physical elements. Its characteristic aspect is determined by the sensory system with which it happens to be associated. Thus, the distinctive aspect of visual consciousness is determined by the makeup of the visual sense and not by any intrinsic properties of its own.
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