Despite a burst of work in the past decade or so, some of it by us, there is still no general agreement on what unified consciousness is. This despite increasing recognition of its importance. Once more into the breach! When one experiences a noise and, say, a pain, one is not conscious of the noise and, separately, of the pain. One is conscious of the noise and pain together, as aspects of a s...

Abstract Most philosophers treat ontological dependence and metaphysical as distinct relations. A number of key differences between the two relations are usually cited in support this claim: dependence's unique connection to existence, differing respective connections necessitation, a divergence their formal features. Alongside reshaping some examples used maintain distinction two, I argue that...