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Full Idea
Why is it that, using the same mind, we have perception of things so utterly unlike as colour, taste, heat, smell and sound?
Gist of Idea
How can one mind perceive so many dissimilar sensations?
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (Tusculan Disputations [c.44 BCE], I.xx.47)
Book Ref
Cicero: 'Tusculan Disputations', ed/tr. King,J.E. [Harvard Loeb 1927], p.57
A Reaction
This leaves us with the 'binding problem', of how the dissimilar sensations are pulled together into one field of experience. It is a nice simple objection, though, to anyone who simplistically claims that the mind is self-evidently unified.