SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND IMMUNITY

Lane and Liang talk about Sydney Shoemaker's articulation of the idea that a person is "immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person pronouns" that contributes to the understanding of self-consciousness. They adhere to the distinction between self-as-subject and self-as-object. According to Shoemaker, "absolute" immunity applies to self-attribution of mental states only as regards the former. What they have discovered is that, even when concerned exclusively with self-as-subject, they are not necessarily immune to error in the way that Shoemaker claims.