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time in an enclosed space with an excited bat knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life. I have said that the essence of the belief that bats have expe-rience is that there is something that it is like to be a bat. Now we know that most bats (the microchiroptera, to be precise)
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979).
21 de mar. de 2024 · This book is a fiftieth anniversary republication of Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” a classic in the philosophy of mind. Through its argument for the irreducible subjectivity of consciousness, it played an essential role in making the study of consciousness a central part of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
Nagel's “What is it like to be a Bat” Argument against Physicalism. Amy Kind - 2011-09-16 - In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 324–326.
20 de sept. de 2010 · Perhaps a bat’s qualia during echolocation looks like human qualia when we see things. Or maybe it has a shape more like that of hearing.
Human beings must first use their minds to imagine what it is like to be a bat. The perception of how a bat experiences a phenomenon must precede the verbalization. The process of using the imagination to achieve this understanding of what it is to be a bat may not be possible.
Our reading is Nagel’s 1974 article “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” which examines the reductionisttheory that some con- temporary philosophers propose as a solution to “the mind- body problem”—the problem of how the mind and body are re- lated.
