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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations
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Hume's 'bundle' won't distinguish one mind with ten experiences from ten minds [Searle on Hume]
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A person is just a fast-moving bundle of perceptions [Hume]
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The parts of a person are always linked together by causation [Hume]
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Hume gives us an interesting sketchy causal theory of personal identity [Perry on Hume]
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A person is simply a bundle of continually fluctuating perceptions [Hume]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
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Introspection always discovers perceptions, and never a Self without perceptions [Hume]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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Memory only reveals personal identity, by showing cause and effect [Hume]
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We use memory to infer personal actions we have since forgotten [Hume]
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Memory not only reveals identity, but creates it, by producing resemblances [Hume]
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Who thinks that because you have forgotten an incident you are no longer that person? [Hume]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity
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Causation unites our perceptions, by producing, destroying and modifying each other [Hume]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
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A continuous lifelong self must be justified by a single sustained impression, which we don't have [Hume]
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When I introspect I can only observe my perceptions, and never a self which has them [Hume]
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We pretend our perceptions are continuous, and imagine a self to fill the gaps [Hume]
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Identity in the mind is a fiction, like that fiction that plants and animals stay the same [Hume]
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