The unity of consciousness, being in multiple places at once
Tackling the binding problem, which is yet another glitch in the materialist worldview arising from the rejection of a brute fact of consciousness and clumsily cramming it into a materialist framework
In our own visual field, we can immediately see that existence can unite differentiation into a single field of experience. It’s not necessary to probe into scientific detail before saying that it simply can. We know it, we see it. It is a basic and indisputable fact about our experience. Our visual field is a conclusive visual proof of this all-at-onceness, a proof more convincing than any mathematical or Euclidian one.
Regardless of whether it conflicts with our view of materialism or not, we can start with this truth: consciousness has a simultaneous purview and span. No matter how strange it would be in any other context, our consciousness is a collective unity. You could very well call it a “collective consciousness” given that our left and right eyes combine into one image, and all the disparate neurons combine together to provide one experience. We see our peripheral vision at the same time as our focal point of vision. All of this happens simultaneously with the other senses too.
Look at the world and behold the fact that you are in more than one location at a time. You can see this sentence all at once. Your focus may be on only one word at a time, but you can see the whole thing. Your consciousness is not here or here or……………………….over here. Your consciousness is in multiple locations at once by virtue of the fact that you are accounting for multiple things at once.