(April 24, 2014 at 9:28 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 23, 2014 at 9:35 pm)whateverist Wrote: Assuming you meant to say "not" as I inserted and bolded ..
.. that's not a problem. That's just a fact.
I don't mind you editing my posts so long as you try to be more clear about having done so. My understanding is that Hume denies that personal identity has any essential aspect. He views it as a collection of experiences without any binding principle i.e. self is an illusion.
Oops, sorry about that. The above would have been better.
Well then I wouldn't be able to agree with Hume entirely. We don't have ready the language and conventions for making all the points that need to be made here. I was responding to what I assumed was a point regarding the primacy of the conscious mind. IMO our autonomy and conscious control are contingent on something we are that is more than that and which is not up to us to decide consciously. Perhaps identity does have essential aspects but we're never -or at least rarely- in a position consciously to be entirely certain what they are.
