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In Hume’s understanding of the self we see that a person is nothing more than a bundle of interconnected perceptions, or memories, linked together in a relatively linear path. We can continue to expand upon this idea by interpreting the ideas of Hume by stating that a self is just a cohesive group of thoughts, and if a person were to have two separate group of thoughts that are accessed individually that would make that person two separate individuals. In the case of Leonard Shelby he is only able to form bundles of memories lasting a few minutes. This means each group of memories that Leonard forms constitutes a new individual. Taking into account the views of Hume I can make the assumption that Leonard Shelby is not the same person he was before the accident, since the memories from before his incident are separate from the memories he makes in the present that means that he is at the minimum two separate individuals. If we count each string of memories he makes as this new individual that means that he becomes a new person multiple times a