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    It is not the case that The Vijñānavāda (Yogācāra) school within Buddhism itself argued that vijñāna or ālayavijñāna is the substratum of experience, implying consciousness has primacy over other psycho-physical elements.

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    • 1.Ālayavijñāna's explanatory power regarding continuity doesn't require consciousness primacy; it could be one coordinated element among others.
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    • 2.Yogācāra conflates the epistemic claim 'we know objects through consciousness' with the metaphysical claim that consciousness creates reality.
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    • 1.Ālayavijñāna explains how experience persists across moments despite constant flux in physical phenomena, supporting consciousness primacy.
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    • 2.Yogācāra's account of how mental impressions (vāsanā) stored in consciousness generate subsequent experiences shows vijñāna as foundational substrate.
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    • 3.If physical objects are mind-dependent constructs, consciousness must logically precede and constitute the basis of all experiential phenomena.
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