![]() To make sense of consciousness, and the evolution of reason, Nagel holds, we need a conceptual revolution. ![]() We don’t know what it’s like to be a quark, but on this view, it must be like something. ![]() Puzzled by this phenomenon when he contemplated bats in 1974, Nagel went on to embrace a radical metaphysics in which there is an essentially subjective aspect to everything that exists, from human beings down to fundamental particles. For Nagel, reality has a subjective dimension closed off to all objective inquiry. What it’s like to be a bat can’t be conceived from our perspective, or from the perspectiveless “view from nowhere” distinctive of natural science. It must feel like something to locate oneself in space by using ultrasound, but the character of this feeling is inaccessible to us. ![]() THE PHILOSOPHER Thomas Nagel is most famous for asking what it’s like to be a bat. ![]()
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