Full Idea
We experience 'horizontal unity' in the organisation of conscious experiences through short stretches of time, and 'vertical unity' in simultaneous awareness of diverse features of our experience.
Gist of Idea
We experience unity at an instant and across time
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 6.I.2)
Book Reference
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.130
A Reaction
See Betjeman's poem "On the Ninth Green at St Enedoc". The brain is an information-unification machine, and 'I' am located at the crossroads where these unifications meet. Analysis of mind is good for us, but so is reunification afterwards.