Unity of Consciousness
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Despite a burst of work in the past decade or so, some of it by us, there is still no general agreement on what unified consciousness is. This despite increasing recognition of its importance. Once more into the breach! When one experiences a noise and, say, a pain, one is not conscious of the noise and, separately, of the pain. One is conscious of the noise and pain together, as aspects of a single conscious experience. This is the unity of consciousness. More generally, it is consciousness not of A and, separately, of B and, separately, of C, but of A-and-B-and-C together. James had a term for this: A, B, and C are co-conscious (1909, p. 221).
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