Clearly consciousness isn’t a unity or it would be a one thing. Instead, by unified we mean it is integrated or harmonized— like a song made of many elements bu

Clearly consciousness isn’t a unity or it would be a one thing. Instead, by unified we mean it is integrated or harmonized— like a song made of many elements but harmonized into a whole. A whole has elements of unity, but necessarily contains parts. Plato’s Parmenides is all about the mystical inability to resolve this paradox of the existence of unity and parts.