[Buddha-l] Re: Where does authority for "true" Buddhism come from?

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 00:14 +0100, Benito Carral wrote:

> >> maybe  still  you  can  remember your defence of the
> >> nervous system as the cause of the arising of -self.
> 
> > No, I have never held such a view.
> 
>    Probably,  Vicente  is  referring  to  the following
> words of you (Aug 30, 2003):
> 
>       What  I said was that consciousness lasts as long
>       as   its  conditions  are  present.  One  of  the
>       conditions  necessary  for  the  continuations of
>       consciousness is a living central nervous system.
>       When  a  body  dies,  its  central nervous system
>       fails  to function, and consciousness disappears.
>       (Richard Hayes, "Re: [BUDDHA-L] About Dukkha")

I doubt it. That passage talks about consciousness. Vicente claims I was
talking about a self. I do not equate consciousness with the self, just
as I do not equate body with a self.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico