Consciousness has traditionally been considered to be a single entity. It appears much more likely to be multiple in the sense that each consciousness content is its own instance of consciousness during its moment. This view of consciousness is in accord with identity theory and helps substantially in rendering the concept of consciousness understandable in terms of the neurological functioning of the brain.
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