Hence, consistently, he held that the self was nothing but an aggregate of its ‘perceptions’ or experiences, together with whatever connections there are between them. There was content, but no container. This is sometimes called a ‘no ownership’ theory of the self, or the ‘bundle’ theory of the self. For Hume, like Lichtenberg in the first chapter, we have ‘it thinks’, or rather, ‘thoughts go on’. But we do not have an owner or possessor or ‘I’ doing the thinking.
