Alternatively, let's do a thought experiment here, a pretend. Pretend that we are neuroscientists, and that we have lots of research cash to spend? We have computer engineers at our disposal to design devices for us. So, we attach some sort of neural probes of highly advanced design, to bats, and a receiver of the signal to humans. The bats send and the humans receive, with the help of computer technology, transceivers, and all the rest. Thus, a human learns at least somewhat, what it's like to be bat. Sending the info from Human to a Bat would likely constitute torture, so let's not do that!
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Apr 10, 2021 11:27 am Subject: Re: BATS (was:Qualia and communicability) On Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 6:28 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: 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. I agree generally with the idea that bat sonar sense could be completely alien to both our sight and our touch. And while I can't know what it's like to be a bat anymore than a bat can know what it's like to be me, we can't rule out the existence of super-states of consciousness, perhaps possessed by Jupiter brains, which would be able to simultaneously hold in mind and compare different brain states, just as our vision can simultaneously look upon two faces and compare them. If you could be this supermind then you might be able to know what it's like to be a bat and how that's different from being John. Jason 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. -- 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/CA%2BBCJUjdLaiVNpvHyW-94q4SOMzuJ1xaA8Sq5G4yWvunBbLY%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/59337301.583323.1618164374845%40mail.yahoo.com.
