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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
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Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 philosophy essay arguing that subjective conscious experience cannot be captured by objective description.
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“What is it like to be a bat? And he asks that question because... the question is what is it like to be a bat for the bat? And the conclusion of the essay, which I recommend everyone reads, is like there's no way to know that except from the inside.”
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