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bave8672 | 6 months ago | on: What is it like to be a bat?

Related - Charles Foster has put perhaps the most effort of any individual to try to really understand what it's like to live as an animal. From the blurb or 'Being a Beast':

> He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter; rooted through London garbage cans as an urban fox; was hunted by bloodhounds as a red deer, nearly dying in the snow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Foster

bave8672 | 2 years ago | on: What is it like to be a crab?

Solving conciousness feels similarly futile to "solving" the number 42.

There are infinite scenarios (what is the square root of 1764? How many mushrooms are in my vegetable box? ...) which yield the sought result.

What suggests it wouldn't be the same for conciousness (neurons in a cortex, vectors in a GPU, alien biology we have yet to discover...)?

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