 Indeed, those who hold that the extent to which consciousness is unified has been overstated owe us an account of what has been overstated. When theorists claim that a some conscious states are not in unified consciousness, we should ask: Not unified with what? One plausible answer would be: The unified conscious mind. Here is one way to view the matter. Once upon a time, some theorists held that all conscious states are unified and indeed that all mental states are conscious. As we saw, Brentano is an example. (We will return to this view in the next Section.) The main difference between this pre-twentieth century vision of unified consciousness as ranging over everything in the mind and view we just examined is that on the latter view, less of consciousness is unified than the earlier view held.