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One step closer to answering Nagel's question: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

What makes you think that?

Not OP, but... It suggests that it's less different than one might have originally thought. Bats using echo location can build a persistent model of the environment, in just the way we can. I'd be prepared to bet a small amount that this gives bats the same illusion we have of moving in a static 3d space.

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.

> 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.

Do you read Thomas Nagel differently?

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