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Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self

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Is It a Thing, an Activity?

O leitha: We can observe the development of that in, say, infants. O it's right to call it a thing. It's an activity. And what i'm tring to get here is that e have a kind of empirical sense of consciousness as it develops. If you observe an infant, for example, who, you know, we've all seen babies early on they look at their hands and so on,. They don't even know that they are, so far as we can tell, anyway.

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