Subjective character of experience
The subjective character of experience is a term in psychology and the philosophy of mind denoting that all subjective phenomena are associated with a single point of view ("ego"). The term was coined and illuminated by Thomas Nagel in his famous paper "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?"[1]
Nagel argues that, because bats are apparently conscious mammals with a way of perceiving their environment entirely different from that of human beings, it is impossible to speak of "what is it like to be a bat for the bat" or, while the example of the bat is particularly illustrative, any conscious species, as each organism has a unique point of view from which no other organism can gather experience.[citation needed] To Nagel, the subjective character of experience implies the cognitive closure of the human mind to some facts, specifically the mental states that physical states create.
See also
- Dualism (philosophy of mind)
- Functionalism
- Hallucinations in the sane
- Inverted spectrum
- Mary's Room
- Multiverse
- Philosophical zombies
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of perception
- Physicalism
- Pragmatism
- Qualia
- Synesthesia
- The map is not the territory
- Vertiginous question
References
- Michael, L.A. (2007). The Principles of Existence & Beyond: Revelation of Enigma of the Existence. Visual Memes. ISBN 978-1-84799-199-7. OCLC 749947766.
- Song, D. Subjective Universe: Interweaving Matter and Mind through Cyclical Time. 2020
- ^ Nagel, Thomas (1974) What is It Like to Be a Bat? The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October): 435–50.
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