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Here is a clean BULLET-GIST PARAPHRASE of the Buddhist doctrines “Consciousness-Only” (Yogācāra) and “Dependent Arising” (Pratītyasamutpāda), expressed in modern, neutral language without religious framing.
Buddhism — Consciousness-Only (Yogācāra)
What we experience as “the world” is structured by consciousness
Objects are not known independently of perception
The subject–object split is constructed, not fundamental
Experience arises as mental events, not as access to things-in-themselves
The brain and body are part of the appearance, not ultimate foundations
Reality is not denied, but reframed as experiential
Liberation comes from seeing that:
What appears solid is interpretive
What seems external is cognitively mediated
Paraphrase:
The world we live in is a presentation shaped by consciousness, not a mirror of an independent reality.
Buddhism — Dependent Arising (Pratītyasamutpāda)
Nothing exists by itself
Everything arises due to conditions
When conditions change, the phenomenon changes or ceases
No permanent essence in:
Objects
Selves
Thoughts
Identity is relational and temporary
Causation is web-like, not linear
Suffering comes from treating conditional processes as permanent things
Paraphrase:
All things exist only through relationships and conditions; remove the conditions and the thing dissolves.
How They Fit Together
Consciousness-Only explains how experience appears
Dependent Arising explains why nothing is fixed
Together they imply:
No mind-independent “stuff”
No independent “self”
No final ground
Reality is a dynamic process, not a collection of substances
Key Insight (Modern Framing)
Reality is neither purely mental nor purely material — it is a conditioned flow of experience without fixed essence.
Direct Parallel to Your Ongoing Thread
Spacetime is emergent
Reality ticks, not flows
The self is a self-aware nothing
Meaning is constructed but constrained
Consciousness is primary in experience, not an object in the world
One-Line Distillation
Consciousness-Only: Experience is mind-mediated
Dependent Arising: Nothing stands alone
Together: What appears solid is a temporary pattern in awareness
If you want next:
A comparison with Donald Hoffman
Or a contrast with Advaita Vedanta
Or a bridge to modern physics (relational QM, QBism)
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