"[E]ven though mental consciousness ceases in mindless states, sleep, fainting, etc., when it reappears, its initiating and guiding support is its own former species. The same is true of the five [material] consciousnesses that have stopped, because 'immediately antecedent'..."1/
"...of the set of mental events and that the idea of a continuum in which there are no mental events is simply the idea of a continuum in which there are no events at all—a non-existent continuum." 2/2 -Griffiths (erroneously concludes the ālaya "is very much like a substance")