Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness

by David Bennett (Editor), Christopher Hill (Editor)

Overview

Philosophers and cognitive scientists address the relationships among the senses and the connections between conscious experiences that form unified wholes.

In this volume, cognitive scientists and philosophers examine two closely related aspects of mind and mental functioning: the relationships among the various senses and the links that connect different conscious experiences to form unified wholes. The contributors address a range of questions concerning how information from one sense influences the processing of information from the other senses and how unified states of consciousness emerge from the bonds that tie conscious experiences together. Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness is the first book to address both of these topics, integrating scientific and philosophical concerns.

A flood of recent work in both philosophy and perception science has challenged traditional conceptions of the sensory systems as operating in isolation. Contributors to the volume consider the ways in which perceptual contact with the world is or may be “multisensory,” discussing such subjects as the modeling of multisensory integration and philosophical aspects of sensory modalities. Recent years have seen a similar surge of interest in unity of consciousness. Contributors explore a range of questions on this topic, including the nature of that unity, the degree to which conscious experiences are unified, and the relationship between unified consciousness and the self.

Contributors
Tim Bayne, David J. Bennett, Berit Brogaard, Barry Dainton, Ophelia Deroy, Frederique de Vignemont, Marc Ernst, Richard Held, Christopher S. Hill, Geoffrey Lee, Kristan Marlow, Farid Masrour, Jennifer Matey, Casey O'Callaghan, Cesare V. Parise, Kevin Rice, Elizabeth Schechter, Pawan Sinha, Julia Trommershaeuser, Loes C. J. van Dam, Jonathan Vogel, James Van Cleve, Robert Van Gulick, Jonas Wulff

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262545730
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David J. Bennett is Visiting Scholar at Brown University. Christopher S. Hill is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

I Mainly on Sensory Integration 1

1 Bayesian Modeling of Perceiving: A Guide to Basic Principles David J. Bennett Julia Trommershäuser Loes C. J. van Dam 3

2 The Multisensory Nature of Perceptual Consciousness Tim Bayne 15

3 The Long-Term Potentiation Model for Grapheme-Color Binding in Synesthesia Berit Brogaard Kristian Marlow Kevin Rice 37

4 Intermodal Binding Awareness Casey O'Callaghan 73

5 The Unity Assumption and the Many Unities of Consciousness Ophelia Deroy 105

6 Multimodal Unity and Multimodal Binding Frédérique de Vignemont 125

7 Can Blue Mean Four? Jennifer Matey 151

8 Establishing Cross-Modal Mappings: Empirical and Computational Investigations Pawan Sinha Jonas Wulff Richard Held 171

9 Berkeley, Reid, and Sinha on Molyneux's Question James Van Cleve 193

10 Modeling Multisensory Integration Loes C. J. van Dam Cesare V. Parise Marc O. Ernst 209

II Primarily on the Unity of Consciousness 231

11 A Unity Pluralist Account of the Unity of Experience David J. Bennett Christopher S. Hill 233

12 Unity, Synchrony, and Subjects Barry Dainton 255

13 Experiences and Their Parts Geoffrey Lee 287

14 Unity of Consciousness: Advertisement for a Leibnizian View Farid Masrour 323

15 Partial Unity of Consciousness: A Preliminary Defense Elizabeth Schechter 347

16 E pluribus unum: Rethinking the Unity of Consciousness Robert Van Gulick 375

17 Counting Minds and Mental States Jonathan Vogel 393

Contributors 401

Index 403