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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". " 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). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consciousn

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