Bats

Bat Guano Caves The best cave for the students to visit is the Lava River Cave. This is based on the diversity of the bats in the area, the accessibility of the cave and area, and the effect that white nose syndrome, or white nose syndrome, has had on the species of bats that live in the area. This cave in Coconino National Forest is close to the Northern Arizona University, and is by far the best choice for a class studying bats and white nose syndrome of the options given, which are the…

have come to an impasse many times. In an essay called What it is Like to be a Bat, the philosopher Thomas Nagel offers a thought experiment that materialist theories of mind neglect the vital element of consciousness. Nagel does this by demonstrating that there is something that it feels like to be a specific conscious being. In this essay, I will explain Nagel’s thought experiment regarding What it’s like to be a Bat.…

helpful for society. Moreover, voluminous societies believe that bats are wicked and malicious animals that want to harm people. In the short stories ‘Called out’, ‘Hope for Animals and Their World’, and ‘My Life as a Bat’ all show how the people have been misguided and are now starting to realize and appreciate the truth about nature. Desert plants are beautiful and unique in their own way. The desert is an…

Chapter 3 demonstrates Searle’s critical abilities towards Dualism and Materialism, as well as the responses to these arguments by materialists. The opinions include: the prospect of zombification and famous analogies “What Is It like to Be a Bat’, “What Mary Didn’t know” and “the Chinese room” by Nagel, Jackson and Searle himself. In Chapters 4 and 5, Searle’s twofold description of consciousness include its configuration and causal link to our physical bodies as well as the outside world.…

The Autobiography of a Wooden Baseball Bat I remember back when I used to be a big, healthy ash tree in central North America. I had all my friends living next to me. Oak, Maple, Pine, they were all where there with me. Then one day it all turned around. I was sitting there, my leaves blowing in the wind, when a creature with a spinning machine starts cutting away at my feet. I thought my life was ending, but when I fell, I was still alive. I was laying there on the ground thinking all was…

While boys have their bar mitzvah ceremony at the age of 13, girls tend to have their bat mitzvah ceremony at the age of 12. The age roughly coincides with the time a child goes through puberty. “Reaching the age of bar or bat mitzvah signifies becoming a full fledged member of the Jewish community with the responsibilities that come with it” (“Bar and Bat Mitzvah” 1). These responsibilities include being responsible for one’s own actions, being eligible to read from the…

Hausman, Gerald. “How Bat Learned to Fly” How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sunset Productions, 1995. 6-10. Print The story starts with a bunch of animals playing a game of modern football, but mouse isn’t very good. He wants to get better, but his hands are too small to play, so he always drops the ball when he runs. His animal friends joke with him about his size, but mouse is sad he isn’t good. One day, mother nature went up to him. Attempting to help, she told him that if…

“What is it like to be a bat?” is that while there are multiple different forms of consciousness, humans cannot be sure of the presence of consciousness in lesser forms of animals, such as a bat. The “what it is like” for Nagel is reworded as being subjective character. The bat has subjective character, which is experience. Even though we know that bats hang upside down, have webbed arms and feet, and use echolocation, we will never truly know what it is like to be a bat. While we can all have…

Keeping vampire bats alive! Just because bats like to hover over herds and suck their blood is not a good enough reason to kill them. Firstly, saving vampire bats will help us in our favor. How? You might ask, well bats carry a certain anti-coagulant. For instance, this certain anti- coagulant can prevent heart attacks, vampire bats may also be the cure for AIDS of different kinds if cancers. Therefore, we should not kill vampire bats, because in the long term they will help us out. Secondly,…

In certain religions, we find similar rituals that have almost the same purpose and meaning, but are performed differently. The rituals that are treated and compared in this research paper are Bar/Bat Mitzvah in Judaism and Confirmation which is present in Christianity. Both rituals signify the entry in adulthood and taking religious ¬¬¬¬responsibilities, as well as strengthen the relationship between the individual and God. These ceremonies have deep roots in the tradition of both religions…