Thursday, February 7, 2019
It is Impossible to Accurately Imagine What is it like to be a Bat Essa
It is Impossible to Accurately Imagine What is it care to be a BatInsofar as I can theorise this (which is not very far), it tells me only what it would be like for me to behave as a bat behaves. But that is not the question. I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat... - Thomas Nagel In decree to take the above request seriously, one must assume that buggy have experience and consciousness. Assuming so, one must then imagine the consciousness that a bat must live with. Its brain is knowing to correlate outgoing impulses with subsequent echoes, and the information thus acquired enables the bat to pass precise discriminations of distance, size, shape, motion, and texture comparable to those we make by vision. (Whereas we humans depose on sight to create our vision of the universe, bats rely on sound.) Because any argument of any creatures existence must be found on the human epistemology, the question is now not how bats comprehend the universe, but how a bats perception compares to the human perception. Such a parity may never be genuine or correct, but by...
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