William James illustrated the problem of combining micro-units into a unified consciousness by comparing it to twelve men each thinking of one word in a sentence; even if they stand together, there is no consciousness of the whole sentence.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Cambridge University Press
  Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness

Sources

• Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press via serper

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• William James entity
• unity of consciousness concept