>>13988087Because if your being had two you wouldn't know about the other. That being said, your being (that is you) do have multiple consciousnesses. One for each time, because we experience time in fragmented consciousness. As far as at this moment, your body only has one consciousness as far as you know.
That being said an individual consciousness can never know if other consciousnesses are truly conscious, only assume based on instinct. You don't know if your memories of past consciousnesses are real.