Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) / quote 110 of 138
The unified-field approach to consciousness
The second approach to the problem of consciousness, the unified-field approach, begins by taking seriously the feature of qualitative subjective unity that I mentioned earlier. For this approach, the paradigm of consciousness, the initial target of the investigation, is not such things as the experience of the color red, but rather the whole conscious field of qualitative, unified subjectivity. For this approach the basic question is not, How does the brain produce this specific building block in the conscious field? but how does it produce the whole conscious field in the first place? What is the difference between the conscious brain and the unconscious brain, and how does that difference causally explain consciousness?