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Bundle account of the self
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Hume’s bundle account challenges an unchanging self encountered apart from perceptions. Relations and memory help explain identity, while the unity of the bundle remains a problem.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 51
Habit, causation and the self
Hume traces our expectations beyond observed cases to custom, and questions whether we ever perceive an unchanging self. His account of the self leaves a difficulty he kept open.