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by kelseyfrog 9 days ago
How do you know that? Do you know what it's like to be me?
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You're close, really close! None of us know what it is like to be anyone else, that's the point. We think we can imagine we know, but we truly do not.
They can make the claim to know what it is like to be you as much as you can make the claim that you know what it is like to be a bat.
I will know the difference. That's enough for me.
How will you know the difference unless you are a bat? You cannot.
I can. You don't have access to my subjective experience to be able to claim I don't.
You can't because you cannot become a bat, so thinking you can is just that, thought. I don't need your subjective experience to know.
Are you claiming you know what it is like to be me? You can't know about the bat thing unless you know what it is like to be me.