G.E.M. Anscombe posits that a subject in a sensory deprivation tank who is anaesthetized and suffering from amnesia could still think "I-thoughts" (e.g., "How did I get into this mess?"), which she uses to argue that "I" cannot mean "this person" because demonstratives require the object to be presented to conscious awareness.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• first-person pronoun 'I' concept
• G.E.M. Anscombe entity