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Mentioned in 35 episodes

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Book • 2024

Thomas Nagel's essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a seminal work in philosophy of mind.

It explores the subjective nature of consciousness and the challenges of understanding other minds.

Nagel argues that even with complete physical knowledge of a bat's brain, we cannot fully grasp its subjective experience.

This essay highlights the limitations of reductionist approaches to consciousness.

It continues to be a central text in discussions about qualia, subjective experience, and the mind-body problem.

Mentioned by

Albert Moukheiber

Kasia de Lazari Radek

Mentioned in 35 episodes

Mentioned by

Robert Greene

in the context of his essay on bat consciousness.

12 Raw Truths About Gaining Power & Respect - Robert Greene - #839

Mentioned by

Michael Pollan

referencing Nagel's essay on subjective experience and the difficulty of imagining other minds.

Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)

Mentionné par

Albert Moukheiber

comme un livre de Thomas Nagel qui pose la question de l'expérience subjective.

Et si ChatGPT était déjà conscient ? - Albert Moukheiber et Monsieur Phi

Mentioned by Philip Goff in the context of a discussion on the subjective experience of bats.

#261 – Philip Goff: Consciousness, Panpsychism, and the Philosophy of Mind

Mentioned by

Tristan Harris

when referencing Thomas Nagel's argument about subjective experience and consciousness.

Have We Trained AI to Lie to Itself — And to Us?

Mentioned by

Cameron Berg

when introducing a classic framing of consciousness as the question of what it is like to be a system.

Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research

Mentioned when talking about how a bat's knowledge of the world is going to be very different.

EP 322 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Psyche and Symbolic Learning

Referenced by

Anil Seth

in relation to subjective experiences, using bats to explain how everyone's world is unique.

How your brain predicts your reality (w/ Anil Seth)

Mentioned by

Kasia de Lazari Radek

as one of

Thomas Nagel

's most famous works.

THOMAS NAGEL thinks you are wrong about the understanding of the universe

Mentioned by

Jordan Shallow

as an essay on consciousness by a philosopher and neuroscientist.

2717: Pain Isn't What You Think w/ Dr. Jordan Shallow

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