Issue #6 Cor #1

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Dear Friends:

 

Below is given the Buddhist criticism of the Jain & Hindu

theories that recognition is a unified psychosis.

 

ISSUE #6 COROLLORY #1

 

THE BUDDHIST CRITICISM OF THE JAINA AND HINDU THEORY THAT THE

ACT OF RECOGNITION IS A UNIFIED PSYCHOSIS:

 

 

The Buddhists point out that it is impossible for recognition

to be a unified psychosis. They ask as to how recognition

might be caused?

 

1. It cannot be due to perception alone, since perception can

cognize only the " this-ness " of an object in the present.

 

2. It cannot be due to recollection alone, since memory can

cognize only the " that-ness " of an object in the past.

 

3. It cannot be due to the fusion between perception and

memory as the two phenomena are different in every way.

Perception is direct, current and presentative in nature.

Memory, on the other hand, is indirect, past and representative

in nature. The two operate on entirely different wave lengths

and their effects are totally different. If the two are

supposedly fused, there would be no difference between past and

present, between recollection and perception and between

representation and presentation. This ends up in a bundle of

contradictions. Hence, the act recognition is merely the

juxtaposition of two discrete psychoses that by their very

innate natures cannot effectively combine in any manner

whatsoever.

 

 

regards,

Hari-vAyu smaraNa

B.N.Hebbar