Singularity and consciousness: A neuropsychological contribution.
Journal of neuropsychology March 1, 2021 Edward H F De Haan, Huibert Steven Scholte, Yair Pinto et al. 8 citations
The subjective feeling that consciousness is singular—that there is only one 'me'—may be an illusion created by the need to respond coherently to the environment. A review of neuropsychological conditions such as anosognosia, neglect, and split-brain, alongside psychiatric disorders and psychoactive drugs, suggests that perceptual, language, memory, attentional, and motor processes can operate largely in parallel without integration. The sense of unity, or 'Me-ness', arises only when an organism must produce a coherent response constrained by environmental affordances.