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David Hume is fundamentally related to the concept of the 'self' because he famously argued that introspection reveals no permanent entity, defining the self instead as a 'bundle of perceptions' [1] or a 'heap or collection of different perceptions' [2]. He consistently rejected the existence of a self independent of specific perceptions [3] and posited that the notion of self-identity is merely a fiction [4].
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Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 4 facts
claimGeorge Berkeley entertained a theory similar to David Hume's bundle theory in his Philosophical Commentaries (Notebook A, paragraphs 577-81), but later rejected it in favor of the claim that humans can have a notion, though not an idea, of the self.
claimDavid Hume rejected the claim that the self is something over and above its contents, instead proclaiming the self to be nothing more than a concatenation of its ephemeral contents.
claimDavid Hume asserted that when he introspects, he only encounters specific perceptions like heat, cold, light, shade, love, hatred, pain, or pleasure, and can never observe a self independent of these perceptions.
claimDavid Hume's original philosophical position denies that humans have any sense of self, whereas versions of bundle theory that allow for awareness of relatedness accommodate the sense of self by explaining it as an illusion.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 3 facts
claimDavid Hume rejected the idea that introspection reveals the self, claiming that when he introspected, he could never catch himself, but only perceptions.
claimDavid Hume posits that the idea of the self is nothing more than a 'heap or collection of different perceptions' because there is no impression or perception of the owner of these perceptions.
claimDavid Hume argues that when he examines his own consciousness, he never encounters a 'self' but only stumbles upon particular perceptions such as heat, cold, light, shade, love, hatred, pain, or pleasure.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
claimDavid Hume suggested in 2017 that there is no self in the sense of Descartes's cogito, but only a flux of impressions and ideas, including memories of past impressions, which leads to the fiction of a self-identity.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 1 fact
claimDavid Hume proposed that the self is a 'bundle of perceptions' rather than an entity distinct from those perceptions.