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**jackie Obrian** · 04-14-2011, 11:42 PM

Yes. This substance is known as mental fabrications. Remains because is a by product of experiences, perceptions and feelings.

So you are stressing the primacy of experiences, perceptions, and feelings. They are fundamental to, and produce consciousness?

They are the objects of consciousness. How do the objects of consciousness actually produce the state of being conscious? This seems rather skewed.

04-14-2011, 11:42 PM	#19
jackie Obrian Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 554 Senior Member	Yes. This substance is known as mental fabrications. Remains because is a by product of experiences, perceptions and feelings. So you are stressing the primacy of experiences, perceptions, and feelings. They are fundamental to, and produce consciousness? They are the objects of consciousness. How do the objects of consciousness actually produce the state of being conscious? This seems rather skewed.
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