  For their part, the Sautrāntika accept neither causation at a  distance nor the existence of constitutive elements of experience in all three temporal dimensions. Rather, as Vasubandhu and his  commentators Yaśomitra and Sthiramati argue, the consciousness  that emerges immediately following the attainment of cessation has as its cause the physical body: this is because mind and body are in a  constant and reciprocal relation of causation, that is, “the  mind and the body with its perceptual systems mutually seed one  another” (AKBh ad II 44d; Poussin 1980, vol. I, 212).  Other Sautrāntikas, such as Vasumitra, content that in effect a  subtle form of consciousness continues even after the attainment of  cessation, for to assume otherwise would be equivalent to claiming  that life can continue without consciousness (an untenable position  for the Buddhist).