What is it that simply sees, hears, senses, and cognizes? Unmediated awareness suggests two distinct systems interacting with and processing sensory information. One foundational the other an artifact or perhaps an unruly out of control function. ???
As a construct, "rebirth" helps demarcate frameworks of shifting karmic momentum (yet another construct) but does not require personal continuity of an unchanging substance. 5/
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One can perhaps visualize this through either the Heraclitean notion "one never steps in the same river twice" or the first law of thermodynamics pertaining to the conservation of energy, which is constantly transforming. No self persists in either of these cases. 6/
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Unfortunately, both are imperfect metaphors, so can't capture the exact meaning. Hopefully they are at least helpful in illustrating the basic pattern. 7/
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