Book review: The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, integration and dissociation ed. by Axel Cleeremans:

“The brain operates like a highly distributed anarchist collective with separate modules each doing their own thing. But we generally perceive, think and act as if ‘we’ were an indissoluble individual. In some as yet only guessed at way, the activity of all the brain modules must be bound together to produce this sense of self.

So is consciousness unitary, and how can we solve the ‘binding problem’? This is the question addressed by the 22-strong ensemble who met at a consciousness conference in Brussels 3 years ago and whose ruminations are brought together in Axel Cleeremans’s collection.” New Scientist