Bundle Theory of Self

Hume's view that the self is not a unified, persisting entity but merely a bundle of distinct perceptions — impressions and ideas — with no additional substrate.

Hume's introspective test: when he looks inward, he never finds a 'self' — only particular perceptions (heat, cold, light, love, pain). The self is nothing over and above this bundle; personal identity is a fiction constructed by the imagination, which conflates resemblance and causation between successive perceptions with genuine identity. Connects to Buddhist anatta (no-self). Later: Parfit's revisionary view of personal identity as not what matters in survival — directly extending the bundle theory.