Unity Consciousness: A Slide Presentation

The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness, 2018

The unity of consciousness I turn my head to gaze out the screen door to my left. It's a pretty scene-grass, rocks, flowers, and woods beyond-but I'm not inspecting it closely. Out of the corner of my eye I see someone crossing the kitchen, and hear someone else walking on the floor above me. Water is running somewhere. I've paused to consider whether I should go to the supermarket before or after lunch.

Oxford University Press eBooks, 2009

Despite a burst of work in the past decade or so, some of it by us, there is still no general agreement on what unified consciousness is. This despite increasing recognition of its importance. Once more into the breach!

Analysis Reviews, 2014

The recent explosion of interest in consciousness has undoubtedly taught us much, but certain aspects of consciousness have not received the attention that they deserve. One such aspect is the unity of consciousness. The Unity of Consciousness has three central aims. The first aim is to provide an account of what the unity of consciousness consists in. What might it mean to say that consciousness is -or, as the case may be, is not -unified? The second aim of the volume is to determine whether consciousness is unified. Is consciousness necessarily unified, or are there conditions in which the unity of consciousness breaks down? The third aim of the volume is to explore the implications of the unity of consciousness. What might the unity of consciousness teach us about the nature of consciousness or the self?

Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual …, 2000

The unity of consciousness is our capacity to be conscious of a number of items all at once, in what could be called a single conscious act. Such unity is found in at least three places: consciousness of the world in general, consciousness of self in general, and paying focal attention to aspects of either. In all three, unified consciousness has both a synchronic and a diachronic dimension. That is to say, consciousness is unified both at a given moment and over time. Unified consciousness can be breached in two ways: by splitting (into two unified centres of consciousness, as in brain bisection operations) and by shattering (as in some severe schizophrenias and dysexecutive disorder). Studying it in its breakdown conditions is a good way to throw light on it. In this paper, we will delineate the unity of consciousness, explore some situations in which it breaks down, and relate it to some other mental unities.

2006

Despite a burst of work in the past decade or so, some of it by us, there is still no general agreement on what unified consciousness is. This despite increasing recognition of its importance. Once more into the breach!

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2009

Despite a burst of work in the past decade or so, some of it by us, there is still no general agreement on what unified consciousness is. This despite increasing recognition of its importance. Once more into the breach!

The unity of consciousness is our capacity to be conscious of a number of items all at once, in what could be called a single conscious act. Such unity is found in at least three places: consciousness of the world in general, consciousness of self in general, and paying focal attention to aspects of either. In all three, unified consciousness has both a synchronic and a diachronic dimension. That is to say, consciousness is unified both at a given moment and over time. Unified consciousness can be breached in two ways: by splitting (into two unified centres of consciousness, as in brain bisection operations) and by shattering (as in some severe schizophrenias and dysexecutive disorder). Studying it in its breakdown conditions is a good way to throw light on it. In this paper, we will delineate the unity of consciousness, explore some situations in which it breaks down, and relate it to some other mental unities.

2019

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2017

The Internet is changing the profession of journalism in a number of ways, which this article looks at in terms of so-called digital, or rather online journalism. This article focuses in particular on the question of if, to what extent and in what respects online journalism differs from traditional journalism. The developments on the Internet in terms of journalism and, more specifically, news on the World Wide Web are presented, leading to a discussion of the three characteristic keywords: interactivity, personalization and convergence. This in itself leads to an analysis of the standards and skills of journalism and journalists online. In conclusion, it is argued that these keywords and journalistic skills and standards closely reflect a contemporary global trend towards community journalism-also known as civic journalism or public journalism-which is an area deserving more study in any analysis of journalism and the Internet.