(Thomas Nagel’s seminal essay about the limits of understanding consciousness from an objective perspective.) Thomas Nagel – What Is It Like to be a Bat? From The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974): 435-50. Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention … Continue reading Nagel – What is it Like to be a Bat?