PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Transitive Relation, Mind, Personal Identity
4 Jul 2016
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Some combination of the psychological and substance answers. Nothing (ex: we are not identical through time) His argument begins with the observation that we have no impression of a self that lasts through time. Hume says that the self is a bundle or collection of different perceptions . Hume says that: existence of a person through time requires continuous existence. The identity, which we ascribe to the mind of man, is only a ctitious one. Hume adopts the strict criterion of identity, since the bundle of perceptions is constantly changing, it cannot be identical through time. I am identical to any person whose consciousness i share. If one can repeat any idea/memory of the past in the same consciousness, then it is an identical person. Identity of spirit and identity of animal body. We imagine a scenario with the goal of generating an intuition about how things are in the scenario- and by extension how they are elsewhere.
