This is philosophy bytes with me, David.
Edmonds, and me, Nigel Warburton.
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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, some into the right.
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 mine, 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 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.