 Kant’s argument for this claim seems to have been that synthesis of represented objects to produce a single complex object is a necessary condition of consciousness of self as single common subject. Without represented objects being tied together in a single complex object, one might be aware of the subject of an individual representation but one could not be aware of the subject of one such representation as the subject of other such representations. Rather, I should have “as many-coloured and diverse a self as I have representations of which I am conscious ..”. (B134)—as are in fact had by me, for I would not, of course, be aware that it was me. 