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2 unusual facts about What Is it Like to Be a Bat?


What Is it Like to Be a Bat?

Subjective and objective concepts are two very different ideas and this is when the metaphor of bats comes into play.

Objectivity on the other hand is based on placing ones self in an unbiased state (Objectivism philosophy).


Colin McGinn

Owen Flanagan introduced the term "new mysterians" in 1991 (named after Question Mark & the Mysterians, a 1960s band) to describe McGinn's position and that of Thomas Nagel, first described in Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" (1974).


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