Combining Minds: How to Think about Composite Subjectivity

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introducing Combinationism
	1. A Universe of Composite Subjectivity
		1.1. The AntiCombination Intuition
		1.2. Motivating Panpsychism
		1.3. Defining Combination
		1.4. Plan of This Book
	2. Conscious Subjects, Conscious Unity, and Five Arguments for Anti- Combination
		2.1. What Is a Subject of Experience?
		2.2. What Is the Unity of Consciousness?
		2.3. Five Arguments against Combinationism
		2.4. Responses to the Five Arguments
		2.5. Conclusions
2 Combinationism for Panpsychists
	3. Composite Subjectivity and Microsubjects
		3.1. A Sketch of Panpsychist Combinationism
		3.2. Why Are Experiential Properties Inherited?
		3.3. How Do Microexperiences Become Phenomenally Unified?
		3.4. The Subsumption Argument from MicroUnity to Inheritance
		3.5. Why Do Microexperiential Zombies
		Conceivable?
		3.6. What If Experience Inheritance Isn’t
		3.7. Conclusions
	4. The Problems of Structural Discrepancy
		4.1. Enriching Panpsychist Combinationism
		4.2. What Is Confusion?
		4.3. Radical Confusion and the Revelation Problem
		4.4. Phenomenal Blending and the Palette Problem
		4.5. Conclusions
3 Combinationism for Functionalists
	5. Composite Subjectivity and Intelligent Subjects
		5.1. Defining Intelligent Subjects
		5.2. Explaining Intelligent Subjects
		5.3. Structured and Unstructured Consciousness
		5.4. What Is Phenomenal Binding?
		5.5. So How
		Intelligent Subjects Combine?
	6. Composite Subjectivity in Organisms, Organs, and Organizations
		6.1. Composite Subjectivity in the NationBrain
		6.2. Composite Subjectivity in Social Groups
		6.3. Composite Subjectivity in the SplitBrain Patient
		6.4. Composite Subjectivity in the Typical Human Brain
		6.5. Conclusions
4 Combinationism for Persons
	7. Composite Subjectivity and Psychological Subjects
		7.1. Psychological Combinationism and the Psychological Conception of Subjects
		7.2. Composite Subjectivity and SelfConsciousness
		7.3. Composite Subjectivity and Agency
		7.4. Composite Subjectivity and Inner Conflict
		7.5. Conclusions
	8. What It Is Like for Two to Become One
		8.1. Introducing MindFusion
		8.2. Fusion from the Perspective of the Parts
		8.3. Fusion from the Perspective of the Whole
		8.4. Conclusions
	9. Concluding Remarks
		9.1. Many Problems and Many Theories
		9.2. The Oddness of Humans
		9.3. Why Is This All So Confusing?
Bibliography
Index