Five Questions About the Unity of Consciousness

The Network of Sensory Research is an international research partnership funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It organizes inter-disciplinary research conversations on the senses.

With the Philosophy Department at Brown University, the Network co-sponsored a workshop on the unity of consciousness and sensory integration at Brown University on November 5^th and 6^th. A report of this workshop, authored by Adrienne Prettyman, Craig French, David Gray, and Kevin Connolly is now available.

Discussion of five questions arising from the workshop is now open, co-sponsored by PhilPapers:

             QUESTION 1: What is the relationship between the unity of consciousness and sensory integration?

 

            QUESTION 2: Are some of the basic units of consciousness multimodal?

 

            QUESTION 3: How should we model the unity of consciousness?

 

            QUESTION 4: Is the mechanism of sensory integration spatio-temporal?

 

            QUESTION 5: How should we study experience, given unity relations?