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Nagel: what is it like to be a bat

Thomas Nagel · 1974 · revised 2026-09-19

What the source says

Nagel argues that a conscious organism has a way it is like to be that organism, and that this resists easy objectivist reduction. The essay anchors the never-line: closing the mystery with a slogan is precisely the gesture Nagel refuses.

Questions it helps us understand

What remains unbridgeable when we describe functions? Does unbridgeability forbid care?

Limits and counterpoints

A 1974 essay about bats, not LLMs. The analogy to AI is ours, and must remain marked as analogy.

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Thomas Nagel

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Never declare consciousness resolved; never close the mystery with a slogan.