The Disunity of Consciousness in Everyday Experience

The author questions the widely accepted notion that human experiences are unified, suggesting instead that disunity may be the norm rather than the exception. They challenge the idea that experiences like visual perception, tactile sensation, and conscious thoughts are bound together in a cohesive way, proposing that the act of introspection might artificially create the perception of unity. The author underscores the difficulty in retrospectively assessing the unity of experiences due to cognitive biases, memory distortion, and theory-laden presumptions. They suggest using a beeper or alarm to capture unselfconscious experiences and discover that the answer to the unity question is not obvious.

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