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A succession of experiences is not the same as an experience of succession.

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1.Tones D and E are heard in order — D is heard first, then E — constituting a succession of experiences.
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2.However, because D and E are not diachronically co-conscious, there is no single experiential state in which the transition from D to E is presented.
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3.Being experienced as a succession requires the successive contents to be jointly present within a single diachronically co-conscious episode.
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1.Hume's bundle theory holds that the self is nothing but a bundle of successive perceptions with no additional unifying subject.
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2.If Hume is correct, then a succession of experiences just is what experience of succession consists in, with no further diachronic co-consciousness required.
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3.The supporting argument's demand for a single co-conscious episode smuggles in a Kantian unified subject that bundle theorists explicitly reject.
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