Hume was wrong to posit an atomistic self. The “I,” for Hume, consists solely of ideas and impressions with loose connection.
But of course we aren’t loose alliances of ideas and impressions floating around. We are embodied beings, with a history and prospects for a future. Hume was reacting against the view of the soul as a transcendent and eternal Self, but he was going too far in his pendulum-like reaction
Christopher, I am no authority on Hume, but I wonder whether you might be loading the dice with the word "loose." Couldn't our ideas and impressions have tight enough connections to make us embodied beings, with a history and prospects for a future?
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