 Now we turn to the idea that unified consciousness of contents and experiencing requires some kind of phenomenally evident relation among the contents of the unified conscious state (in addition to the contents being aspects of a single unified act of consciousness) and some attempts to model this relationship. We might call this the relational model of unified consciousness. It is a descendant of Kant’s claim examined in  Section 1  that unified consciousness requires conceptual interconnectedness in the objects of consciousness; as he put it, 