What Is It Like To Be A Bat

This appears to create difficulties for the notion of what it is like to be a bat.

The paper presents several difficulties posed by consciousness including the possible insolubility of the mind body problem owing to facts beyond the reach of human concepts the limits of objectivity and reductionism the phenomenological features of subjective experience the limits of human. What is it like to be a bat is the name of a philosophy paper written by thomas nagel in 1974. He says the most important features of a bat s consciousness would be accessible in some way to third person that is objective or empirical observation. We must consider whether any method will permit us to extrapolate to the inner life of the bat from our own case 5 and if not what alternative methods there may be for under standing the notion.

Dennett denies nagel s claim that the bat s consciousness is inaccessible. 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. The paper isn t really about the sensory world of bats.