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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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