 Dennett is interesting in this regard. As we saw, he can plausibly be read as rejecting the traditional picture of unified consciousness. Yet he can still invoke unity. He says, “What is it like to be an ant colony? Nothing, I submit … What is it like to be a brace of oxen? Nothing (even if it is like something to be a single ox)” (Dennett 2005). Why is the answer nothing? In such cases, “there is no functional unity …—no unity to distinguish an I from a we” (Dennett 2005). 