Bats on the other hand are a different species, and have a different brain. This even makes it more difficult to experience what a bat does because their brain has specific functions such as recognizing the impulses of echolocation. Because bats perceive distance, size, shape, and motion through echolocation, their experience could not objectively be like ours. It seems to me that Nagel is saying that there aren 't any methods to extrapolate the inner life of a bat in our own mind. While humans can imagine how bats behave, this is not the argument. The argument is what it is like to be a bat. The experiences of a bat seem to be one of the main premises of Nagel 's argument. Even imagining what it would be like to be a bat would not be enough to see the experiences of bats. Bats are known to have versions of pain,hunger, and lust, however each of these experiences have their own subject character. Because each of these have their own subjective character, we cannot conceive these experiences. However Nagel states that human scientists have no obstacles finding knowledge about the experiences because they wouldn 't be able to describe our own
Bats on the other hand are a different species, and have a different brain. This even makes it more difficult to experience what a bat does because their brain has specific functions such as recognizing the impulses of echolocation. Because bats perceive distance, size, shape, and motion through echolocation, their experience could not objectively be like ours. It seems to me that Nagel is saying that there aren 't any methods to extrapolate the inner life of a bat in our own mind. While humans can imagine how bats behave, this is not the argument. The argument is what it is like to be a bat. The experiences of a bat seem to be one of the main premises of Nagel 's argument. Even imagining what it would be like to be a bat would not be enough to see the experiences of bats. Bats are known to have versions of pain,hunger, and lust, however each of these experiences have their own subject character. Because each of these have their own subjective character, we cannot conceive these experiences. However Nagel states that human scientists have no obstacles finding knowledge about the experiences because they wouldn 't be able to describe our own