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Subject as a key-term in thinking about human consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to David Hume's radical skepticism.

The idealists ' starting point was Hume's conclusion that there is nothing to the self over and above a big, fleeting bundle of perceptions.

The next step was to ask how this undifferentiated bundle comes to be experienced as a unity-as a single subject.

Hume had offered the following proposal: