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>>19189714
>No one put forth the idea that thoughts were self-aware you schizo
That’s wrong, why are you so clueless about the Buddhism that you shill? Yogachara Buddhists put forward this very claim that mental events including thoughts are self-knowing and they call this svasamvedana (see pic related) this is fully accepted by Dharmakirti, and Shantaraksita and Mipham regard it as conventionally real but not ultimately real. Without even citing that the Buddhists themselves make this claim and call it svasamvedana, it follows logically as the implication of sahopalambha, because saying as Yogacharins do that awareness and its objects are identical means that thoughts comprise momentary entities which have both an objective component (the content or information of that thought, i.e. the arthākāra) and subjective component (the subjective awareness of that objective component, i.e. the grāhakākāra).