Seth Paskin
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first heard Jun 2026
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And this question of described from the outside is equivalent to being inaccessible.
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So on page four forty-two, he calls back to the Leipzig example and he's saying he makes the direct analogy.
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He says the same thing is true about imagining what it is like to be a bat.
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We should be interested in what we can know about the bat's consciousness, if any, not whether we can turn our minds temporarily or permanently into bat minds.
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In chapter twelve, we undermine the presumption that there are intrinsic properties, qualia, that constitute what it is like to have a one conscious experience or another.
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And even if there were residual, nondispositional, non relational properties of bat experiences, becoming intimately acquainted with them while remaining ignorant of the researchable facts about the systemic structure of bat perception and behavior would lead us ignorant to what it was like to be a bat.
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There is at least a lot we can know about what it is like to be a bat, and neither Nagel nor anyone else has given but and neither Nagel nor anyone else has given us a good reason to believe there's anything interesting or theoretically important that is inaccessible to us.
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Nagel claims that no amount of third-person knowledge could tell us what it's like to be a bat, and I flatly deny that claim.
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So he goes on, he gives an example where in the end he basically says that.
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The stuff that is inaccessible doesn't is it are distinctions that make no difference.
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I make the distinction between what I see and what I think this... So if you ask me, is the stick bent?
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I would say no.
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Have I just disproved?
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This is where I think that at some point he talks about the fact that what's really going on in your consciousness is basically your experience of it is judgments.
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So the closest thing that you have to what we would call the wholeness of our conscious experience is the fact that we have a bunch of judgments that we've made.
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And that what's going on with the bent stick or with the dots is that you have a set of judgments that you've made.
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And then those judgments are up to be revised based upon whether or not you get more experience, you get more information about it.
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So the bent stick one is, is to me fairly easy because you have the
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Extra experience of pulling the stick out and seeing that it's not bent.
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And in fact, you could mess around with somebody, right?
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