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@georgia @hidden I know the position, I think your point is that without grounding an Atman in Brahman, a collapse in hierarchy is inevitable.

I’m pointing out that this isn’t true IF you stick to orthodox Buddhist Abhidharma, which provides an account for how you preserve hierarchy and continuity without needing to “divinize” personhood itself. You can think of it like chemical reactions, carbon is the consciousness aggregate and links to different combinations of the other 4 aggregates.

There’s still room underneath that to posit something Aristotelian linking those aggregates together bc sunyata is very limited in scope in the older schools. It only refers to the fact that incarnate things are made of composite base materials, and the configuration changes in such ways that you can’t identify a permanent self.