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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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“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
- OpenAlex
- W1597932157
- Cited by
- 402
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 8.93
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- Language
- en
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › 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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