ABSTRACT
The assumption that the human experience of being conscious is the only form of consciousness carries with it a corollary that is rarely made explicit, but creates the widespread acceptance that there is a mind-body problem—often described as the hard problem in the philosophy of mind. In the former case, a group of neurons in the chimpanzee brain identifies the apple, because neurons further down the chain responded to certain visual features such as colour and shape. An animal with access consciousness can perceive an object and think about the object, leading to action in respect of that object. The unity of consciousness may well be a true description of the consciousness of the L-mind, and may also be a true description of the consciousness of the R-mind, but it is an incorrect description of the consciousness of a human being.
