What is it Like to Be a Bat?
Nagel (Thomas)
Source: Block, Flanagan & Guzeldere - The Nature of Consciousness
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Author’s Introduction

  1. Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave of reductionist1 euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and mental concepts designed to explain the possibility of some variety of materialism2, psychophysical identification, or reduction3.
  2. But the problems dealt with are those common to this type of reduction4 and other types, and what makes the mind-body problem unique, and unlike the water-H2O problem or the Turing machine-IBM machine problem or the lightning-electrical discharge problem or the gene-DNA problem or the oak tree-hydrocarbon problem, is ignored.
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