David Hume

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our feelings, pleasures, and sensations succeed each other and never all exist at the same time. Since all these impressions are never constant and invariable it cannot be any of these impressions, therefore we have no idea or impressions of the “self” these philosophers talk about.
He goes on and talks about how there are many different ways to explain the being of “self”, but for him whenever he think about it he always comes up with the idea of “self” succeeding perception, one fallowing the other. He says he cannot think of the idea of “self” without the idea of perception. He says whenever perception is removed from the equation then “self” no longer seizes to exist. Without Perception, “self” would not exist. For Hume this is the best explanation an empiricist can come up with, he acknowledges that there are other ways to explain, but they are most likely unreasonable and probably wrong.
Hume ends his argument with saying that the only thing he is sure about in this ...

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