Gavin comments on Wes Weimer from Udacity presents his list of things you should learn - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gavin 26 June 2012 02:58:59AM *  2 points [-]

Thomas Nagel's paper "What is it like to be a bat?"

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/teaching/niseminar4/Nagel_WhatIsItLikeToBeABat.pdf

I'm not sure I agree with his points or his "scientism" terminology, but my takeway was "there are things going on with conscious experience that our current scientific understandings simply aren't close to understanding and explaining yet."

Comment author: tgb 27 June 2012 12:09:34AM 1 point [-]

Thanks!