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180 points adityaathalye | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

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nomilk ◴[03 Sep 25 21:53 UTC] No.45120791[source]▶

> Nagel asserts that "an organism has 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."

Struggling to make sense of this sentence.

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1. padjo ◴[03 Sep 25 21:56 UTC] No.45120810[source]▶

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I wouldn’t bother.

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What is it like to be a bat?