Thomas Nagel What Is It Like To Be Bat

The idea of the physicalism is that mind must account the subjective character of experience. Describal term of the physicalism is also know as "materialism". According from the author of the " What is it like to be bat?", Thomas Nagel, states that "if mental processes are indeed physical processes, then there is something like intrinsically" . As stated in Nagel's article, if there is something that is like to instantiate convinced physical properties then there is no answer to the question of the why. There must be something that to instantiate properties based on the concept of the certain properties. He also supports his argument point stating that there is no reductionist strategy that will approve anybody to lower the subjective, describe of aware …show more content…
Nagel states also that it is hard to describe grouping of the mind and body, and existence of consciousness based on the somebody’s point of view. Moreover, in Nagels article, he states that it is true that people use their fantasy to think about what is like to be bat, however, this imagination can only be guessing the idea that what is like to have talents of the bat, not to become be physical bat. In addition, people have excessive dept of intense dreams that allows people to imagine in their mind to be like a bat for people. Even though we can attribute several kinds of familiarity to bats, such as, panic, starvation, pain, and thirst, we cannot know what the particular character of each of these experiences is like. Inadequacy of physicalist hypothese that assumme a faulty objective exploration of mind. Additionally, we can not comprehend the position of the physicalism because of we do not have any conception of how it might be true. As an example, it is hard to identify what it is like to have been tone-deaf and visionless from birth, and this somebody has complications knowing what it is like to be normal vision or hearing