This book explores how groups of interacting minds relate to singular minds. Roelofs argue that we are too used to seeing the mind as an indivisible unity, and that properly understanding our place in nature requires more willingness to see minds as composite systems, both one and many.

• Division 1: Introducing Combinationism


• Chapter 1: A Universe of Composite Subjectivity


• Chapter 2: Conscious Subjects, Conscious Unity, and Five Arguments for Anti-Combination


• Division 2: Combinationism for Panpsychists


• Chapter 3: Composite Subjectivity and Microsubjects


• Chapter 4: The Problems of Structural Discrepancy


• Division 3: Combinationism for Functionalists


• Chapter 5: Composite Subjectivity and Intelligent Subjects


• Chapter 6: Composite Subjectivity in Organisms, Organs, and Organisations


• Division 4: Combinationism for Persons


• Chapter 7: Composite Subjectivity and Psychological Subjects


• Chapter 8: What it is Like for Two to Become One


• Conclusion

Luke Roelofs is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He works on a range of topics in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and meta-ethics.