What is it like to be a bat objections Archive. Nagel supports this by saying, ?if I try to imagine this, I am restricted to the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task. 436. My point, however, is not that we cannot know what it is like to be a bat. So if extrapolation from our own case is involved in the idea of what it is like to be a bat, the extrapolation must be incomple-table. jstor. Will any method (current or future) of science tell us what it’s like to be a bat? Nagel’s not too optimistic. org/sici?sici=0031-8108 Mar 6, 2017 ยท What does it feel like to be a bat? Is conscious experience of echolocation closer to that of vision or audition? Or do bats process echolocation nonconsciously, such that they do not feel anything a Nagel says human beings cannot know "what it is like for a bat to be a bat. (p. We must attempt to imagine what it is like to be a bat, we imagine that we have wings, that we have no vision, that we use sonar sensors etc. owxhs jzyn vlcwp chjtdf uvjxo hrdbp jxbsx gpqkgz mkagxh jyc