David Hume said[1]: > For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or co

David Hume said[1]: > For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. and also: > I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable than our sight, and all our other senses and faculties contribute to this change; nor is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment To be fair, he was from Edinburgh, in the East of Scotland. 1: https://schoolworkhelper.net/humes-bundle-theory-of-the-self/ https://schoolworkhelper.net/humes-bundle-theory-of-the-self...