So Daniel Dennett says our brains are not "unified". And I have personally felt that since forever. Meaning that, any time you have an internal struggle between choosing one course of action or another, that's different areas or nodes within your brain engaging in conflict with one another. According to neuroscientists, this process is less conflict-like and more democratic, where the majority of cells voicing a preference being victorious, and steering the larger ship of "you" toward their desired outcome. My issue with raising this is my old idea that if consciousness should ever be expanded beyond the individual person, will this lead to an overall reduction in conflict or not? Initially, considering that there are internal conflicts like the one I just described, it felt like it was just kicking the can of "war" down the road. However, I then realized that internal conflicts are not exactly wars, in that your own brain cells are not able to kill off the brain cells that they are locked in conflict with. Therefore, a planetary consciousness would be better at least in that it would be forced to negotiate with itself, rather than kill off parts of itself.