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What is it like to be a bat?

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180 points adityaathalye | 2 comments | 03 Sep 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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tim333 ◴[03 Sep 25 22:31 UTC] No.45121087[source]▶
Maybe in the future we'll be able to run computer simulations of people and bats that think they are conscious and you'll be able to merge them a bit to get some bat experience?
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1. AIorNot ◴[03 Sep 25 23:20 UTC] No.45121442[source]▶
You would be adding bat experience (sonar, hanging upside down, flying etc) to become a literal Bat Man so to speak :)

But you would never know exactly what it feels to be a bat without removing your human level experience from the picture

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2. tim333 ◴[04 Sep 25 11:14 UTC] No.45125937[source]▶
Though you could have like a slider control for more or less bat.