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The brain has two hemispheres and I'm getting information all the time, some of which

enters into my left hemisphere,

that's not how I experience things.

To me, my experience appears unified.

But is it unified?

Does it have to be unified?

Tricky questions for philosophers of minds such as Tim Baines of Manchester University.

Tim Baines, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you very much.

We're going to be talking about the Unity of Consciousness. What does that mean?

I think it means different things to different people.

Let me start by saying some of the many things that have been meant by the Unity of Consciousness,

and then I'll focus in on what been meant by the unity of consciousness and then I'll

focus in on what I mean by the unity of consciousness. A nice place to start is

with the idea that there are different unity relations in consciousness. One kind of unity relation is what I call

subject unity. Certain experiences are mine and certain experiences are yours right now. My

visual experiences are mine and your visual experiences are yours right now. My visual experiences are obviously

yours. So we can say that experiences are subject unified when they're had by the same subject.

Another kind of unity relation I called

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