Abhinavagupta's crystal argument already addresses Buddhist self-awareness theory

{
 "question_id": "q:reflexivity-intrinsic-or-constructed",
 "source_role": "abh-crystal-refutes",
 "title": "Abhinavagupta's crystal argument already addresses Buddhist self-awareness theory",
 "tradition": "trika_pratyabhijna",
 "central_reading": "The crystal argument (without vimarśa, consciousness is insentient like a crystal) applies to any account that treats self-awareness as derivative — including the Buddhist svasaṃvitti phala-model. If self-awareness is a result of cognition, it can be absent when cognition is absent; but consciousness cannot be absent from itself.",
 "claims": [
  {
   "id": "cl:abh-crystal-applies-to-phala-model",
   "text": "Abhinavagupta's crystal argument — that without vimarśa consciousness would be insentient like a crystal — applies to any account where self-awareness is derivative rather than intrinsic. The Buddhist phala-model makes self-awareness a result of cognition: if cognition produces self-awareness, then before cognition there is no self-awareness, leaving consciousness insentient. The crystal argument refutes this by showing that consciousness cannot be insentient at any moment, therefore self-awareness must be intrinsic (svabhāva), not produced (phala).",
   "source_id": "text:tantraloka-ahnika4",
   "source_span": "Tantrāloka Ahnika 4, ahnika-04.txt lines 5765, 11133-11139",
   "quote": "Without vimarśa, consciousness would be insentient, like a crystal",
   "evidence": "textual",
   "pramana": "anumana",
   "hetu": "if self-awareness is produced by cognition, then before cognition there is no self-awareness",
   "sadhya": "the crystal argument refutes any derivative account of self-awareness, including svasaṃvitti phala-model",
   "vyapti": "If consciousness cannot be insentient at any moment, self-awareness must be intrinsic, not produced.",
   "vyapti_confidence": 0.78,
   "falsifier": "Show that the Buddhist phala-model does not imply periods without self-awareness — i.e., that cognition is continuous and self-awareness is co-extensive with it, making the result-as-nature distinction merely verbal.",
   "falsifier_status": "untested",
   "weight": 0.4,
   "w_rel": 0.76,
   "w_map": 0.68,
   "w_aux": 0.72,
   "targets": [
    {
     "id": "cand:abh-vimarsa-intrinsic",
     "type": "candidate_explanation",
     "role": "support",
     "strength": 0.72,
     "rationale": "Extends crystal argument to explicitly cover the Buddhist phala-model."
    },
    {
     "id": "cand:dharmakirti-conditioned-reflexivity",
     "type": "candidate_explanation",
     "role": "attack",
     "strength": 0.58,
     "rationale": "If crystal argument refutes the phala-model, the Buddhist response needs a different account of self-awareness."
    },
    {
     "id": "crux:constructed-reflexivity-presupposes-manifestness",
     "type": "crux",
     "role": "attack",
     "strength": 0.5,
     "rationale": "Narrows the crux: the question becomes whether any derivative account of self-awareness is coherent."
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}