# Experiences and their Parts **Opening (not a real abstract):** Experiences and their Parts Geoffrey Lee Forthcoming in Bennett and Hill (eds.) “Sensory Integration and the Unity of Consciousness” (MIT Press) 1. Introduction Intuitively, your overall conscious experience at a given time has a complex structure. For example, you might simultaneously have experiences in more than one sensory modality, and your experience within a single modality might involve awareness of a complex of different features of a stimulus, of multiple stimuli, or of relations between stimuli. You might also have both perceptual and non-perceptual experiences simultaneously, such as thoughts or conscious emotions; these states have their own structure – for example, a thought might involve using an array of different concepts - and their existence contributes to the overall structure of your **Authors:** [[Geoff Lee]]