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What Is It Like Something to Be a Bat?
The phrase like something to be a system, and that comes from thomas nagles essay, what is it like to be a bat? Or he defined consciousness in these terms. And yet, this phrase trips off our ungs without any problem. It confuses people on two levels. One, there are people who actually don't see consciousness and experience as being something unique,. But there's athere another group of people who actually get the hard problem, but they still have a hard time getting their minds around this language. So if you just ask the person, you know, is there something that it's like to be you right now? Are you having an experience? And of course