Sunday, September 28, 2008
Bat in a cave?
We've been talking about the idea of how do we know if we can experiencing other animals experiences and really know anything about their lives. This is an interesting idea, because I personally think that us being unable to experience a bat's life is just as hard as feeling like we can understand our best friend, or any other humans life. The bat is an extreme example, obviously, because they have extremely different senses and routines and everything, but think about being able to know how someone else is feeling. Senses are subjective, how could we ever know if what I see as blue is actually blue for you? Or how would we know if a pillow feels the same for one person as it does for the next? We couldn't, and therefore, i think we know the same amount about a bat's life as we do about our best friends. What do you think?
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I love this idea! I actually am constantly thinking about it whenever someone mentions a smell sound taste etc. I am just curious that if what he or she is feeling is really like how they describe it. So I feel as though that we might know what it might feel like to be another human more than a bat, but in reality we really don't know.
I think about this a lot too. It's like the one scene in the matrix when they're eating, and they're like, how do the machines know how chicken tastes like? Is the chicken taste in the matrix actually what real chicken tastes like? It could be like that for each of us as well. So, when we are trying to comfort someone and we say "I know how you feel" in reality we don't.
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