Philosophy / Unit 6 Philosophy 0240 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
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The idea
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.
In practice
Learn all the physics of echolocation; you still cannot know what echolocating feels like from inside. The facts run out before the feeling.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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