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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

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Nagel's point: an organism is conscious when there is something it is like to be it—and that subjective character escapes every objective description.

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Learn all the physics of echolocation; you still cannot know what echolocating feels like from inside. The facts run out before the feeling.