ABSTRACT
Although I naturally think of the colored expanses I see, the sounds I hear, and the odors I smell as belonging to mindindependent, external objects, the considerations adduced by Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have convinced me that the occurrent qualitative items I immediately apprehend in these cases are really subjective phenomena belonging to a unified bundle, which Hume considered a mind or self. My conviction on this matter does not require me to draw Hume's skeptical conclusions, however. Armed
with more powerful inferential methods than Hume possessed, I can provide experimental support for my belief that I am not identical with the bundle of apprehended objects but a psychophysical being (a sentient, rational animal) that apprehends them.
