What's it like to be a bat? What does it mean to 'be'? What is consciousness? We explore Thomas Nagel's groundbreaking essay, What Is It Like To Be A Bat.

References:

What Is It Like To Be A Bat by Thomas Nagel: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf

Very Bad Wizards on 'What Is It Like To Be A Bat': https://www.verybadwizards.com/175

David Chalmers Hard Problem of Consciousness: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hard_problem_of_consciousness#:~:text=The%20hard%20problem%20of%20consciousness,with%20phenomenal%20qualities%20or%20qualia).

Daniel Kish 'I use sonar to navigate the world': https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kish_how_i_use_sonar_to_navigate_the_world?language=en

Mary the Color Scientist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

Giulio Tononi components of consciousness: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-fundamental-nature-consciousness-giulio-tononi-excerpt/

FMRI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging#:~:text=Functional%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging%20or,and%20neuronal%20activation%20are%20coupled.

Closer To Truth: https://www.closertotruth.com/

Deepak Chopra everything is made of consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXC0RUH1axE

Panpsychism: https://iep.utm.edu/panpsych/#:~:text=Panpsychism%20is%20the%20view%20that,psyche%20(soul%20or%20mind).

Michio Kaku Hyperspace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_(book)

Inverted Spectrum thought experiment: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-inverted/

Douglas Hofstadter I Am A Strange Loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop

Sterocilia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereocilia_(inner_ear)

Jungian Archetypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes#:~:text=Jungian%20archetypes%20are%20defined%20as,as%20proposed%20by%20Carl%20Jung.&text=They%20are%20unclear%20underlying%20forms,and%20the%20flood%20among%20others.

Ego Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death

Douglas Harding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Harding

Inside Out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/

Walking forests: https://www.livescience.com/33663-walking-tree-socratea-exorrhiza.html#:~:text=There%20is%20one%20unique%20exception,exorrhiza)%20found%20in%20Latin%20America.&text=The%20tree%20slowly%20'walks'%20from,with%20its%20wanderlust%20to%20die.%22

Roger Penrose quantum consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

Quantum biology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology#:~:text=Quantum%20biology%20is%20the%20study,are%20quantum%20mechanical%20in%20nature.

Bernard Barr brain limits consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_workspace_theory