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32.1 Approaches 32.1 Approaches
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32.1.1 Subsumption 32.1.1 Subsumption
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32.1.2 Co‐consciousness 32.1.2 Co‐consciousness
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32.1.3 Joint Consciousness 32.1.3 Joint Consciousness
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32.2 Taxonomies 32.2 Taxonomies
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32.3 A Long History 32.3 A Long History
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32.4 Pathologies of Unified Consciousness 32.4 Pathologies of Unified Consciousness
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32.4.1 Unusual Forms of Unity of Consciousness 32.4.1 Unusual Forms of Unity of Consciousness
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Brain‐Bisection Operations Brain‐Bisection Operations
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative Identity Disorder
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32.4.2 Compromised Unity of Consciousness 32.4.2 Compromised Unity of Consciousness
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Schizophrenia Schizophrenia
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Dysexecutive Syndrome Dysexecutive Syndrome
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Simultagnosia Simultagnosia
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32.5 Is There a Common Thread to the Pathological Cases? 32.5 Is There a Common Thread to the Pathological Cases?
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32.6 Four Theses 32.6 Four Theses
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32.7 Two Models 32.7 Two Models
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References References
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32 Unity of Consciousness
Get accessPaul Raymont is Assistant Professor, Ryerson University.
Andrew Brook is Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University.
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Published:02 September 2009
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Abstract
When one focuses on words on a monitor and, say, feels a twinge of pain, one is not conscious of the words and, separately, of the pain. One is conscious of the words and the pain together, as aspects of a single experience. At least since Kant, this phenomenon has been called the unity of consciousness. A variety of approaches to characterizing unified consciousness have been tried by different theorists. Some start from the idea that a unified conscious experience is a composite of other experiences. Others assert or assume that, while a unified conscious experience will have a complex object or content, it has no experiential parts. This article returns to this disagreement. The first two ways of characterizing the unity of consciousness that are examined here are within the experiential-parts approach.
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