Is I-cognition ‘the same for everyone’? (opens in new tab)

My 2010 article (“Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Elaboration of Self-Awareness (svasaṃvedana), and How it Differs from Dharmakīrti’s Exposition of the Concept”) listed eight differences between self-awareness (svasaṃvedana) and I-cognition (ahampratyaya). (Pre-modern Indian philosophers could be divided into three groups, depending on whether they thought the self is perceived by neither of these, by one of them, or by both. Note that whether the self is perceived through self-awareness is a completely ...