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What is it like to be a bat?

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180 points adityaathalye | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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edbaskerville ◴[03 Sep 25 22:25 UTC] No.45121036[source]▶
Human beings can, in fact, learn to echolocate, and they seem to experience it as vision, supported by their own descriptions and by fMRIs showing the visual cortex lighting up.

I'm not going to try to draw any inferences about consciousness from these facts. I'll leave that to others.

https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-be...

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1. ericmcer ◴[04 Sep 25 19:34 UTC] No.45131334[source]▶
It makes sense given that we are just receiving light waves instead of sound. Light waves contain way more information but your brain would still come up with some kind of "visualization" based on the info. I didn't listen to the program but he might just see blobs of varying sizes instead of any kind of detailed image.