The idea here is very similar to the ideas about the ‘self’ that we took from Kant, and indeed form the other side of the same coin. If we try to understand the self in sensory terms, as an object of experience, we meet Hume’s problem, that it is no such object. But if instead we think of the way a personal or egocentric standpoint organizes experience, the role of the self as an element in our thinking becomes clearer—and so do illusions engendered by that role.
