Unity of Consciousness Advertisement for a Leibnizian View

• Published in: Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness p. 323
• Main Author: Farid Masrour
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States The MIT Press 31.10.2014; MIT Press
• Subjects: Acoustics; Animal sounds; Animal vocalization; Applied sciences; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Bioacoustics; Bird songs; Cognitive psychology; Communications; Concept of mind; Connectivity; Consciousness theory; Dialectic; Discourse; Divine attributes; Doctrinal theology; Emotion; Emotional states; Engineering; Formal logic; Human consciousness; Joy; Logic; Logical topics; Mathematical logic; Mereology; Metaphilosophy; Metaphysics; Music; Musical performance; Natural philosophy; Newtonianism; Oneness; Perception theory; Perceptual experiences; Performing arts; Philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Physical sciences; Physics; Psychology; Religion; Rhetoric; Singing; Social sciences; Systematic theology; Systems design; Systems engineering; Theology; Unified consciousness
• ISBN: 026202778X; 9780262027786
• DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9746.003.0015

It is common to hold that our conscious experiences at a single moment are often unified. But when consciousness is unified, what are the fundamental facts in virtue of which it is unified? On some accounts of the unity of consciousness, the most fundamental fact that grounds unity is a form of singularity or oneness. I call these Newtonian accounts of unity because of their similarity to Newtonian views of space according to which the most fundamental fact that grounds relations of co-spatiality between various points (or regions) of a space is the fact that these points (or regions) are