What is it like to be a bat?

duda-wsm • 5 december 2022

Consciousness according to Thomas Nagel

Without conscious awareness you wouldn't exist. Who or what else, besides you, is aware? Other persons, bats..... aliens?
Philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote an article named 'What is it like to be a bat?

It's about conscious experience and what he means by that. It's simple: something is conscious if it is something it is like to be that thing. Personally I am confident that a bat is conscious. They are mammals like us, so we are closely related. However, a bit 'sees' in the dark by echolocation. What that is like is impossible to know from a human perspective.

The bat in the dotwork drawing I made is a hairy-legged vampire bat. It prefers bird blood and lives in South-America

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