bgrah449 comments on What big goals do we have? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bgrah449 20 January 2010 08:31:43AM 2 points [-]

Isn't that not really being a bat, then? You'll never know what it's like to be a bat; you'll only know what it's like for humans who found themselves in a bat body.

Comment author: SilasBarta 20 January 2010 08:30:18PM 1 point [-]

It's a bit hard to specify exactly what would satisfy me, so saying that I would "retain my memories" might be overbroad. Stil, you get the point, I hope: my goals is to be able to experience fundamentally different kinds of consciousness, where different senses and considerations have different "gut-level" significance.