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They are remarkable, and occasionally frustrating, for their implacable evenness of sympathy and lack of a unifying consciousness — often, just as a character's narrative interest has been established, Taylor's focus will swing away, almost perversely, to a new point of view.
Knowing minds are themselves complex spatio-temporal things, societies of emotions and feelings without a unifying consciousness to which these might belong nor some ultimate self which could conceivably take a stand somehow outside and beyond the world of space and time.
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Is it possible, for a given instance of experienced objects p, q, and r, for there to be unified consciousness of p and q, unified consciousness of q and r, but no unified consciousness of p and r? (The parallel in brain bisection cases?
We might call this the relational model of unified consciousness.
So why does he suddenly introduce unified consciousness?
In the others, consciousness ranges over either many experienced items (unified consciousness of contents), experiencings of many objects (unified consciousness of experiencing), or multiple acts of access to oneself as subject of many experiencings (unified consciousness of self).
Whatever is going on in hemi-neglect, unified consciousness seems to remain.
A fortiori, co-ownership would not capture what is distinctive about unified consciousness.
On the first view, when I have unified consciousness of experiencing, I am conscious of many experiences.
There are at least two approaches to what characterizes unified consciousness that are compatible with the no experiential parts view.
We must, it seems, also be jointly conscious of the various elements to have unified consciousness of an object.
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