 As we saw, the notion of a unified experience subsuming simpler experiences is central to Bayne’s and Chalmers’ (2003; see Bayne 2010) account of the unity of consciousness. This may appear to be a version of EP and Tye treats it so (without using that label; 2003: 21). However, Bayne and Chalmers hedge their bet. While they do speak of the encompassing conscious state as involving “at least a conjunction of each of many more specific conscious states” (2003: 27), and of a “complex phenomenal state and a simpler state that is intuitively one of its ‘components’” (2003: 40), they also caution that thinking here in terms of “a mereological part/whole relation among phenomenal states” should be regarded only as an “aid to intuition rather than as a serious ontological proposal” (2003: 40). So how their view stacks up with respect to EP is not entirely clear. 