The view that non-conceptual self-consciousness is a necessary condition of the unity of consciousness is vulnerable to the objection that it implausibly rules out cases like the subject in a sensory deprivation tank described by G.E.M. Anscombe in 1975, where forms of non-conceptual self-consciousness are absent.

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