On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 6:31 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
*> They {bats} could in some sense even feel the surfaces with such sonar:
> is the surface smooth or rough, hard or soft, etc. Sound reflects
> differently from different types of surfaces. *
Yes.
*> Would they feel these surface differences as colors, *
What you mean is, would they sense these surface differences as* I SEE*
colors?
*> or would it feel more like tactile sensations? *
What you mean is, would they sense these surface differences as *I FEEL*
surfaces? The answer to both questions is a resounding *NO*. A particular
bat senses surfaces not as you do but as a particular bat does. The only
way Jason Resch Could ever know what it's like to be a particular bat would
be for Jason Resch to turn into that bat, and even then he wouldn't know
because then he wouldn't be Jason Resch anymore, he'd be a bat. And even a
bat doesn't know what it's like to be another bat.
John K Clark
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0Zr7Cs6FYP-daK38W2rp7f5z6AeJFYKvUAhzJ%3D2FXtjw%40mail.gmail.com.
