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Perspective voyage · 1974

Nagel — Does the bat’s point of view survive physical explanation?

After every observable fact is collected, does the fact of what it is like for that creature remain?

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What makes a mind and a self persist?

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Nagel characterizes a conscious organism as one for which there is something it is like to be that organism.

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  • What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

    Thomas Nagel · 1974

    Locator: pp. 436–438

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1974 CE · October 1974

Nagel's article makes the subjective character of consciousness a central problem in philosophy of mind.

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