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There is a qualitative difference between what it is like to be a human and what it is like to be a bat. You can't "get closer" to bridging a qualitative differ
by bpshaver 2y ago
There is a qualitative difference between what it is like to be a human and what it is like to be a bat. You can't "get closer" to bridging a qualitative difference. Likewise, qualitative difference cannot be "less different." Those terms only apply to quantitative differences.
Additionally, learning additional facts about bats, such as that they create acoustic cognitive maps, doesn't tell us anything about what it is like to be a bat. That's literally the whole point of Nagel's paper.
- stevenhuang 2y ago> You can't "get closer" to bridging a qualitative difference. Likewise, qualitative difference cannot be "less different." Those terms only apply to quantitative differences. All of this is your opinion.
- bpshaver 2y agoDo you read Thomas Nagel differently?