Imagine, for instance, a subject of experiences to whom various experiences merely happened over time.
Another way to put this point is that one can't be a person, on the narrative view, unless one gathers up the various experiences one has as a subject of experiences into a coherent narrative, but then the identity of that subject of experiences must be preserved across time for its experiences to be so gathered up.
When you try to examine it, you see right through it, as it were, to the qualities you were experiencing all along in being a subject of the experience, qualities your experience is of.
(1) If we restrict ourselves to a single subject of experience, the lifeworld can be looked upon as the rational structure underlying his (or her) "natural attitude".
The mental self [1] or 'minimal self' [13], [14] refers to "a consciousness of oneself as an immediate subject of experience, unextended in time" [15].
I am not simply a pure and formal subject of experience, but also a person, with abilities, dispositions, habits, interests, character traits, and convictions, and to focus exclusively on the first is to engage in an abstraction (Husserl 1968, 210).
Similarly, by denying that there is an ego or persisting subject of experience, Hume (1739) was arguably an eliminativist about the self.
Moreover, the concept of "self" has been applied in various ways, e.g. as a synonym for the person as a whole, as a synonym for personality, as the subject of experience, as the system of beliefs about ourselves, and as one agent among others.
Setting PEEP is a matter of experience and subject to considerable variability in treatment and thus outcome [ 23].
