Reincarnation is a central feature of the Indian religious landscape, yet the question of what actually continues from one life to another can be surprisingly vague. In the non-dual Trika philosophy of Kashmir Śaivism, the answer is considerably more nuanced than either the migration of an eternal soul or the complete denial of personal continuity. Drawing primarily upon Abhinavagupta's...
A satisfactory consciousness first ontology must explain how multiple individuated perspectives arise within a reality whose fundamental character is experiential manifestation. Contemporary approaches including panpsychism and cosmopsychism recognise this difficulty, though a detailed structural account of subject formation often remains underdeveloped (Strawson, 2006; Chalmers, 2015; Goff,...