Answer to Question 1
- According to Hume, human experience consists of impressions (basic sensations) and ideas (thoughts and images that are copies of impressions).
- Because the self is not found among these continually changing sensations, we can only conclude that there is no good reason for believing that the self exists.
- What is the self we experience according to Hume? A bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Answer to Question 2
- The first principle of Decartes' theory of knowledge is cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore, I am).
- No rational person will doubt his or her own existence as a conscious, thinking entity while we are aware of thinking about our self.
- It would be impossible to be self-conscious if we didn't have a personal identity of which to be conscious, so self-identity and being self-conscious are mutually dependent on one another.
Anatomical Position
Superior view of heart valves illustrating position, size, and shape of each valve.
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Position effect, as illustrated in the eye phenotype in two female Drosophila