ABSTRACT
Philosophers have offered different proposals regarding the bearers of value. Pluralism about complex experiences gives some idea of the kinds of mental items that bear value. These are instantiations of phenomenal properties by subjects at certain times and over certain windows of time, so long as the properties constitutive of the experience are bound by legitimate unity relations. A generic view is that an experience is the instantiation of at least one phenomenal property by a subject at a time. Specific conscious states can be explicated in terms of their phenomenal character, and their relation to total conscious states is one of subsumption. Tim Bayne distinguishes between specific conscious states and total conscious states. Christopher S. Hill notes that in some cases a subject's specific experiences will be unified into something like Bayne's total conscious state, but this will not be in virtue of any relation of phenomenal unity.
