What Is it Like to Be a Bat?

A What Is it Like to Be a Bat? is a Thomas Nagel that ...

• See: Daniel Dennett, Thomas Nagel, The Philosophical Review, Materialism, Theory of Mind, Consciousness, Consciousness Explained.

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• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_it_Like_to_Be_a_Bat? Retrieved:2017-4-25.
  • “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). In it, Nagel argues that materialist theories of mind omit the essential component of consciousness, namely that there is something that it is (or feels) like to be a particular, conscious thing. He argued that an organism had conscious mental states, "if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism — something it is like for the organism." Daniel Dennett, a critic of Nagel's argument, nevertheless called this paper "the most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness."

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