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Who wrote the philosophical essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"?

  • John Rawls

  • Bertrand Russell

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Thomas Nagel

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Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher and professor at New York University. His best-known work is the philosophical essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), in which he argues that it is impossible for us to know what it is like to be a bat or any other non-human animal because we cannot experience their subjective experiences.
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