CONSCIOUSNESS, MIND AND THE WORLD
AREA
2 AN INDIVIDUAL HAS MULTIPLE CENTERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Issues...the binding problem…or is
it a problem. Binding, attention and memory…not everything in the
conscious field needs to be bound…the universe is not a single object [for
many purposes]; and an individual needs to have different modes of control: a
scanning control that is part of the central, discrete mode…and a mode
that is on “idle” [sleep] but arousable in relation to a different
category of data that suddenly requires attention
Individual
consciousness that appears to be one is, in fact, many…or distributed
Therefore
the world has in it a distribution of consciousnesses or awarenesses
We
would next like to show that the diffusion of consciousness is a unity: The
Many Consciousnesses in the World Constitute a Single Consciousness. This is
taken up next