The five-aggregate (skandha) schema places saṃjñā and vijñāna in categorically separate aggregates, indicating canonical Buddhism does recognize a functional dissociation between them.

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canonical Buddhism(Buddhist history and textual authority): The earliest, most officially recognized teachings of Buddhism as preserved in the oldest written texts, considered the standard or authoritative version of Buddhist doctrine.
functional dissociation(Buddhist philosophy of mind): The idea that two things (like perception and consciousness) work separately and independently from each other, even though they might be related.
saṃjñā(Early Buddhist canonical literature; contrasted with wisdom (prajñā)): Apperception understood as empirical apprehension of phenomena; the awareness that bears upon sensory activity rather than sensory activity itself. Treated in canonical literature as synonymous with vijñāna.
skandha (also written as skandhas)(Buddhist philosophy of mind and self): In Buddhism, these are the five basic components that make up a human being: physical form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. Think of them like the fundamental building blocks of what we experience as 'self.'

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