>it would seem that consciousnesses are discrete It may seem that way, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is that way. After all, our brains do an incredible

>it would seem that consciousnesses are discrete It may seem that way, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is that way. After all, our brains do an incredible amount of filtering and modulating to deliver our conscious experience such as it is, unified and discrete. If it is as fundamental as the panpsychists believe (and I don't count myself firmly among them, but I have to entertain the possibility), it seems possible, if not likely, that there is a good deal of fuzziness and overlap in and among systems of consciousness.