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Thomas Nagel and What It Is Like to Be a Bat: The Paper That Defined the Hard Problem

In 1974 Thomas Nagel asked a question no neuroscience could answer: what does the world feel like from inside another consciousness? The answer reshaped philosophy of mind for fifty years.

May 5, 2026


Thomas Nagel and What It Is Like to Be a Bat: The Paper That Defined the Hard Problem
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