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Jon Opie

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The disunity of consciousness

Australasian Journal of Philosophy September 1, 1998 Gerard J. O’brien, Jon Opie 33 citations

It is commonplace for both philosophers and cognitive scientists to express their allegiance to the “unity of consciousness”. This is the claim that a subject’s phenomenal consciousness, at any one moment in time, is a single thing. This view has had a major influence on computational theories of consciousness. In particular, what we call single-track theories dominate the literature, theories...