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How You Perceive the World Isn’t Quite Right & Why Productivity is Very Overrated

Something You Should Know

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

The philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote an essay called What Is It Like to Be a Bat? He argued that even if you imagined yourself using echolocation or flying through there with leathery wings, you would never really be able to get into the head of a bat. So scientific technology can certainly take us a long way but there is this gulf that we will never be able to cross. And the only way to cross it really is by making what one scientist Alexander Horowitz described as informed imaginative leaps.

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