In 1739 David Hume, aged twenty-seven, went looking for his self. Every time, he wrote, “I always stumble on some particular perception or other”: heat, cold, love, pain. We are, he decided, “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions”.
Look for yourself in the bundle.
Hume looked for his self and only found experiences, one after another. Maybe that’s all a self is: a bundle that keeps holding together.
Ask yourself. If your job title came out of the bundle, what would hold it together?
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That’s the whole collection examined, every room. Now imagine doing this with your own life, for a year, with two people who come to know it well. That’s membership.