{"id":23509,"date":"2024-04-12T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=23509"},"modified":"2024-04-12T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:37:07","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/04\/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it like to be a bat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F\">Wikipedia<\/a> citation<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2183914\">Thomas Nagel<\/a> argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking &#8220;the bat&#8217;s point of view&#8221;, it would still be impossible &#8220;to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat\u201c\u2026 While it is possible to imagine what it would be like to fly, navigate by sonar, hang upside down and eat insects like a bat, that is not the same as a bat&#8217;s perspective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Animal_consciousness\">Animal consciousness<\/a> is still terra incognita while I also assume that &#8220;humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness.\u201c<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia citation Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking &#8220;the bat&#8217;s point of view&#8221;, it would still be impossible &#8220;to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat\u201c\u2026 While it is possible to imagine what it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/04\/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is it like to be a bat?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23510,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509\/revisions\/23510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}