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by kelseyfrog 1 day ago
I will know the difference. That's enough for me.
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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.
I know you're a human, therefore I know you cannot know what it's like to be a bat, as an objective fact, regardless of how you think you think subjectively.
I am a human who objectively knows what it's like to be a bat.

I have greater epistemic authority over what I know than others.