Playing this on Ed Radio today. David Hume is one of the major influential figures in my philosophical world. Nicholas Phillipson, who narrates the video, says "[Hume] concluded the dynamic power, which drives the workings of what we think of as the mind, is in fact the imagination. The organizing principle of what we like to think of as the mind is, in fact, custom, habit, convention - the sort of experience, the cognitive experience, the moral experience we acquire from everyday life in the society, in which we move." My own view of mind, though modernized, is essentially the same.
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