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Full Idea
There is a tremendous blunder in absurdly overestimating consciousness, the transformation of it into a unity, an entity - 'spirit', 'soul', something that feels, thinks, wills.
Gist of Idea
It is a major blunder to think of consciousness as a unity, and hence as an entity, a thing
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §529)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.286
A Reaction
This is a wonderfully modern and scientific view. Even strong materialists still make claims about mental unity, behind which an extravagent and contradictory metaphysics can be hidden. Was Nietzsche, then, an 'eliminativist' about mind?