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