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on being a bat, or a dyslexic, or an individual human being?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 5:38pm.
Yep, my thanks too to Molly, both for the effort to explain what things "look like" to her, and for connecting that issue to Nagel's "What it Like to be a Bat?" Maybe the "crime of subjectivity" not only prevents us from knowing what it is to be a bat, and prevents  someone who is dyslexic from knowing what is to be non-dyslexic (and vice versa), but in fact prevents any of us from knowing what it is to be anyone else? And maybe that's .... a good thing rather than a bad one?

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