The analysis as undertaken in the Dhammasaṅgaṇī shows that the smallest accessible psychic unit, a moment of consciousness, is as little indivisible (atomos), uniform, and undifferentiated as the material atom of modern physics. Like the physical atom, a moment of consciousness is a correlational system of its factors, functions, energies, or aspects, or whatever other name we choose to give to the “components” of that hypothetical psychic unit.
