The first layer of consciousness unifies the qualified body, and provides it with ownership of its bodily and psychic activities. Living beings are multitudes, which stand in need of being self-aware in order to achieve unity and self-sufficiency. The process of achieving unity and self-sufficiency begins with the qualified body, i.e., the animated body that is integrated with living things in the sensible world and is subject to affections. The basis for this process involves sympathy (sumpatheia) and awareness (sunaisthêsis). The former is an objective feature of a living being insofar as it constitutes it as a structured and coherent whole, whereas the latter is a subjective feature of a living being insofar as it recognizes that the parts and activities that constitute this whole belong to oneself or are one’s own. These two features are what enable living things to act as unified wholes despite being composed of functionally differentiated parts. The notion of subjectivity that I attribute to Plotinus at this level is related to being a subject and having ownership. To have subjectivity in this sense is to be the kind of being to whom psychic states can be correctly ascribed and to whom psychic states belong.