Nothing that exists ever comes to be, nothing that does not exist, nothing that both exists and does not exist. The cause cannot come to be from an unoriginate effect, nor does an effect simply happen of itself. The uncaused certainly does not come into existence. Knowledge must have an object, otherwise both will be non-existent. For this reason, as also from the experience of pain, our opponent's assertion of the existence of the object should be admitted.
Logic demands an object as the cause of knowledge.
But from the standpoint of reality, it is evident the cause is no cause at all. Consciousness has no contact with objects, and no contact with appearances of objects. At none of the three times does consciousness make contact with objects. Neither consciousness nor its objects ever come into existence. If the world has no beginning it will have no end either .