[njohnson41]

"If, after all, Nagel is proven wrong—that is, if subjectivity is in fact reducible to an identifiable network of neural synapses—what is the point of investigating the human condition through a humanistic lens? If what it is like to be human, much less a bat, turns out to be empirically situated in the dense switchboard of the brain, what happens to Shakespeare, Swift, Woolf, or Wittgenstein when it comes to explaining ourselves to ourselves?"

Nothing, of course. Thinking that believing reductionism will somehow transform human minds into mathematics is like thinking that believing evolution will transform humans into chimps. And whether or not you believe in reductionism, the reality of humanity won't change. The only thing that changes is that the non-reductionist philosophers lose and the neurobiologists, cognitive scientists, and AI researchers win. Which seems to be happening, in any case.