Me not We

The mind is such an intricate organ and it processes our thoughts in individualized way, which is why I believe that we think as ourselves as a singular being and not a collective.  Bloom describes the mind as having a multitude of identities, for example "There is no inconsistency between someone’s anxiously hiking through the Amazon wishing she were home in a warm bath and, weeks later, feeling good about being the sort of adventurous soul who goes into the rain forest. In an important sense, the person in the Amazon is not the same person as the one back home safely recalling the experience." (Bloom) This claim is like saying that each phase change that we go through in our mind is a different side of ourselves, and that we only can really experience one state of mind at a time depending on the circumstances we are in, unless you have dissociative identity disorder. My thoughts are we have a singular consciousness. The lady in the amazon has one consciousness but is simply thinking back on her past experiences. Of course the woman is going to wish she was home but thats because she is in an uncomfortable place and misses simple comforts she is used to , not due to another side of her mind that comes out after an adventure. The consciousness may seem to be divided at times like making a difficult decision, the devil and angle on their respective perches, but in the end they are consolidated into that singular entity, you.