What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Is There

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Essay

What is it like to be a bat? Is there any way that you can know what it feels like to be a bat, or what a bat's experience feels like to the bat? If not, how much can you know, or how much can you empathize with, a bat or, in fact, any other living thing, including other human beings?    Alternatively, supposing that you were an intelligent bat, how could you communicate your experience to humans? If a bat could talk, would we (humans)be able to understand it? Construct an argument for your own viewpoint.   Develop at least two objections or counterarguments to your viewpoint and answer them. You can draw freely on resources in the chapter, but you're not limited to them. (You may want to consult David Foster Wallace's essay "Consider the Lobster," for example.)For "bat," you may substitute another name of a kind of being (including a human being), with permission from your professor.

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