ABSTRACT
The simplest version of Non-Reductionism claims that a person is a separately existing entity, distinct from the person's brain and body and their experiences. As Strawson points out, it is central to the concept of the self that it is, qua subject of experience, somehow distinct from all its experiences. This has led to a certain tension in attempts to characterize it, and this tension has affected efforts at demonstrating its existence. Martin suggests that the evidence is more accessible. He maintains that most persons experience themselves most of the time as what he calls 'perceivers': as fixed, continuous points of observation on the external objects and internal states of which they are aware. A more promising place to look might be people's awareness not of particular mental states, but of a multiplicity of such states as they occur over time.
