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For what it's worth, this is exactly the Buddhist principle of "no-self", which, by my understanding, is a specific case of sunyata, the Mahayana Buddhist doctrine of "emptiness." Interestingly, sunyata seems to be equivalent or very similar to the notion of the Mind Projection Fallacy:
"According the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way philosophy which is central to Mahayana Buddhism, ordinary beings misperceive all objects of perception in a fundamental way. The misperception is caused by the psychological tendency to grasp at all objects of perception as if they really existed as independent entities. This is to say that ordinary beings believe that such objects exist 'out there' as they appear to perception...
Sunyata - translated as Emptiness - is the concept that all objects are Empty of svabhava, they are Empty of 'inherent existence'."
That sounds more like a denial of sensory evidence than as a denial of the continuity of mind/self.
Yeah, that phrasing is misleading. It is more like a denial of objecthood and the subject-object distinction. Objecthood just arises from from our reification of our perceptions.
(Apologies for the made up words)