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3) Do you believe bats have consciousness?
I don't think that they are self aware.
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That’s really interesting to me. It used to be pretty much everyone intuitively concluded the same but now it seems that people intuitively conclude the opposite. I’m just speculating based off things I’ve read of course but it seems to me like there’s been an entire paradigm shift in how people imagine what it’s like to be another living thing if it’s like anything at all.
Question inspired by Thomas Nagel’s essay
https://organizations.utep.edu/porta.../nagel_bat.pdf