Anosognosia and the Unity of Consciousness

There are researchers in cognitive science whouse clinical and experimental evidence to drawsome rather skeptical conclusions about acentral feature of our conscious experience,its unity. They maintain that the examinationof clinical phenomena reveals that humanconsciousness has a much more fragmentarycharacter than the one we normally attribute toit. In the article, these claims are questionedby examining some of the clinical studies onthe deficit of anosognosia. I try to show thatthese studies support a moderate sense of theunity of reflexive consciousness.