What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
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"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 consciousness, including the potential 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 i
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1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel
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2007-03-17T17:46:02Z
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