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But the definition isn’t if it is like something for a human to be a bat. Human experience doesn’t really come into it. It is like something to be a human. But
by PinkMilkshake 9y ago
But the definition isn’t if it is like something for a human to be a bat. Human experience doesn’t really come into it.
It is like something to be a human. But the conscious experience of a bat (if it exists) may be completely alien to us in every way. That’s not relevant to what it is to be like a bat. The only important thing is if it is like something to be a bat.
- red75prime 9y agoWhat's good in a definition you have no conceivable way of applying? How would you go about testing whether a bat is conscious according to this definition? It is based on our illusion of understanding what it is like to be a human, but upon closer inspection it bears no real content.