The Unity of Consciousness

• Foreword ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; PART 1: WHAT IS UNITY? ; 1.1 What is the unity of consciousness? ; 1.2 Consciousness and co-consciousness ; 1.3 Action, the unity of consciousness, and vehicle externalism ; PART 2: BINDING (THE MECHANISMS OF UNITY) ; 2.1 Consciousness and perceptual binding ; 2.2 Conscious visual representations built from multiple binding processes: evidence from neuropsychology ; 2.3 Temporal binding and the neural correlates of consciousness ; 2.4 Oscillatory synchrony as a signature for the unity of visual experience in humans ; 2.5 Three forms of binding and their neural substrates: Alternatives to temporal synchrony ; PART 3: DISSOCIATIONS (WHEN UNITY BREAKS DOWN) ; 3.1 Linking learning and consciousness: The self-organizing consciousness (SOC) Model ; 3.2 Unifying consciousness with explicit knowledge ; 3.3 Face recognition with and without awareness ; PART 4: INTEGRATION (THE EMERGENCE OF UNITY) ; 4.1 Consciousness differentiated and integrated ; 4.2 Neural synchrony and the unity of mind: A neurophenomenological perspective ; 4.3 Conscious unity, emotion, dreaming, and the solution of the hard problem

The book may be most useful for illustrating the breadth of approaches applied to the unity of consciousness and the different levels at which the concept can be considered. It offers few solid conclusions but raises many questions. Overall, there is much that is stimulating and thought provoking, and anyone with an interest in consciousness will find something worth reading.