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kelseyfrog
9 days ago
How do you know that? Do you know what it's like to be me?
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jubilanti
9 days ago
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.
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fredoliveira
9 days ago
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.
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kelseyfrog
9 days ago
I will know the difference. That's enough for me.
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satvikpendem
9 days ago
How will you know the difference unless you are a bat? You cannot.
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kelseyfrog
9 days ago
I can. You don't have access to my subjective experience to be able to claim I don't.
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satvikpendem
9 days ago
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.
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kelseyfrog
8 days ago
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.
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