What Is It Like To Be A Bat Analysis

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Philosophers have discussed the mind-body problem for hundreds of years. The mid and body are two different things with nothing in common between them. Nagel argues that an organism has conscious experiences “if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism” (pg.169 para1). I believe all mammals have conscious experience but humans are

The mind-body problem is the question of how the mind and body are related. When mind and body are defined as two different things that have no relationship, the question is how do the mind and body become one again (pg. 96 para 2)? John Searle has some aspects of our mind that are not connectable with the real things and the first one is consciousness (page 96 para 3). Nagel illustrates the mind-body problem in his essay by
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169 para 1). The question Nagel asked “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” is unanswerable. I won’t ever know what it is like to be a bat. I can imagine what it is like to be a bat but I can’t physically and mentally experience what it is like to be a bat. It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to be a bat because the subjective character of my experiences is much different from a bats subjective character. For example, I sleep in my bed at night laying on my back, side or stomach while a bat sleeps upside down. The bats subjective character is much different from mine. Nagel assumes we all believe bats experience things (pg. 169 para 3). I think he chose bats because they are like humans because they are warm-blooded and have some of the same anatomy as a human but they are different because bats have sonar perception and can fly unlike