I know Sam Harris has said that he and his wife talk about what it’s like to be a bat a lot. (And substitute anything else for bat)
I’ve not actually read the paper, but I’m familiar with the subject from listening to him and reading the Wikipedia article.
But I honestly can’t see what’s the big deal about it. It seems like someone trying to tell people who aren’t empathetic to practice empathy. Or maybe it gives people a new way to talk about empathy?
I like boiling things down to their minimums, but if it can really be boiled down to that level, then it doesn’t seem like anything new. Descartes’s famous argument about his own existence was in response to the idea that objective reality can’t be known, wasn’t it? It seems quite similar to me, at least.
I know Sam Harris has said that he and his wife talk about what it’s like to be a bat a lot. (And substitute anything else for bat)
I’ve not actually read the paper, but I’m familiar with the subject from listening to him and reading the Wikipedia article.
But I honestly can’t see what’s the big deal about it. It seems like someone trying to tell people who aren’t empathetic to practice empathy. Or maybe it gives people a new way to talk about empathy?
It’s just saying that real objectivity is impossible because everything is filtered through a subjective lens.
I like boiling things down to their minimums, but if it can really be boiled down to that level, then it doesn’t seem like anything new. Descartes’s famous argument about his own existence was in response to the idea that objective reality can’t be known, wasn’t it? It seems quite similar to me, at least.