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What is it like to be a bat?

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1. dwd ◴[] No.45122345[source]
Anil Seth recently wrote a book "Being You", which very much states that we can only know what it is like to be ourselves.

Basically, to know what it is like to be a bat, you need to have evolved as a bat.

His theory that our perception is a hallucination generated by a prediction algorithm that uses sensory input to update and correct the hallucination is very interesting.