For this particular topic, there is a relevant classic philosophy essay by Thomas Nagel - "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" "To the extent that I could look and b

For this particular topic, there is a relevant classic philosophy essay by Thomas Nagel - "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" "To the extent that I could look and behave like a wasp or a bat without changing my fundamental structure, my experiences would not be anything like the experiences of those animals. On the other hand, it is doubtful that any meaning can be attached to the supposition that I should possess the internal neurophysiological constitution of a bat. Even if I could by gradual degrees be transformed into a bat, nothing in my present constitution enables me to imagine what the experiences of such a future stage of myself thus metamorphosed would be like." http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/nagel_nice.html http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/nagel_nice.html