...thoughts and consciousness is receiving increasing study. More than 200 years ago. David Hume wrote,". . . The mind is a kind of theatre where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations." Consider the possible origins of behaviour (Wilson, 1978; Leaky and Lewin, 1992). If we saw two hominids...

...brooding on a single episode could eventually make it seem true. 58 David Hume tellingly called the mind 'a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively...in an infinite variety of postures and situations', 59 while the sympathetic projection inherent to fiction-reading chimed with the psychology of Adam...

...brooding on a single episode could eventually make it seem true.58 David Hume tellingly called the mind 'a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively...and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations',59 while the sympathetic projection inherent to fiction-reading chimed with the psychology...

...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. [...] The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinitive variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor...

...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. [...] The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinitive variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor...

...self is anticipated by Hume's discussion of identity. In A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) he argues: 'The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle to an infinite variety of postures and situations.'21 Like Smith, he uses the image of mirrors as a...

...judgment - but it also has the effect of removing external and moral sanctions for action and identity:"12 "The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations" (Treatise, \, vi, 253). With powerful results: "The intense view of these manifold contradictions and...

...which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement , , , The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations, 1Hume 1740:252-31 it was partly in response to Hume's scepticism about an underlying subject that Kant...

...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement: (77252) the mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...in an infinite variety of postures and situations: (77253) I cannot compare the soul more properly to any thing than to a republic or commonwealth, in...

...an active role and even a sort of human stams to those perceptions: 'The mind is a kind of meatre, where several perceptions successively make their...re.pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of posmres and simations,'te In Knaul, \\ezel similarly mrns personified emotions, ideas, and faculties...