 This notion tries to capture what is distinctive about unified consciousness in a way that is neutral with respect to the EP/NEP debate. The notion is related to the phenomenal side of the Bayne/Chalmers notion of subsumption, there being something it is like to be in two conscious states simultaneously (Bayne &amp; Chalmers 2003: 32), but in a way that is free of the non-neutral notion of subsumption. It is not clear whether joint consciousness is an alternative to Tye’s notion of same phenomenal content or an attempt to say something about what yields such content. 