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I've tried to avoid being a bat specialist as that can pigeonhole you.
At one point in the scene, Mr. Cohen says that "in a lot of ways, being a bat boy is similar to I.T".
In 1974, when Pat was studying the brain in Winnipeg and Paul was working on his first book, Thomas Nagel, a philosopher at Princeton who practiced just the sort of philosophy that they were trying to define themselves against, published an essay called "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" Imagine being a bat, Nagel suggested.
In a classic 1974 essay called "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?," the philosopher Thomas Nagel concluded that, because the experience of using echolocation is unlike "anything we can experience or imagine," we can never really know what being a bat feels like; the best we can do is imagine it by analogy, comparing echolocation, inaccurately, to hearing or seeing.
He proves his point by pointing out that humans cannot know what it is like to be a bat – the subjective experience of being a bat, that is – because there is far more to the picture than fluttering sightlessly around and jones-ing for flies.
Have fun being a bat!
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I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat".
I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat".
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