The Unity of Consciousness

Bayne, Tim

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199215386.001.0001

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The Unity of Consciousness

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Bayne examines the idea that a human being can have only a single stream of consciousness at any one point in time. He draws on philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to defend the claim that consciousness is unified, and he explores the implications for theories of consciousness and for our understanding of the self.

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Knowing whether a particular kind of entity falls within the distribution of consciousness may have an important bearing on accounts of the nature of consciousness, such as whether it is necessarily unified, comes in degrees, or is multiply realized.
“The scienti fi c importance of developing C-tests is clear, for knowing whether a particular kind of entity falls within the distribution of consciousness may have an important bearing on accounts of the nature of consciousness, such as whether it is necessarily uni fi ed [41], comes in degrees [42], or is multiply realized [43,44].”
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Authors: Bayne, T.
Affiliations: University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author: Bayne, Tim
ORCID: Bayne, Tim
Venue: Oxford University Press eBooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-10-28
Volume: 4
Issue: 2
Pages: 7414-7414
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199215386.001.0001
OpenAlex: W1597932157
Cited by: 402
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FWCI: 8.93
Type: book
Language: en
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Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
Keywords: unity of consciousness, stream of consciousness, theory of consciousness, self, philosophy of mind, neuroscience of consciousness, psychology of consciousness

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