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    angel ur one could also be nagel who is a famous philosopher, most notable who wrote the philosopy of what its like to be a bat, hahahahaha

    In “What is it Like to Be a Bat?”, Nagel argues that consciousness has essential to it a subjective character, a what it is like aspect. He states that “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is to be that organism—something it is like for the organism.”[4] Nagel also suggests that the subjective aspect of the mind may not ever be sufficiently accounted for by the objective methods of reductionistic science. He claims that “f we acknowledge that a physical theory of mind must account for the subjective character of experience, we must admit that no presently available conception gives us a clue how this could be done.”[5] Furthermore, he states that “it seems unlikely that any physical theory of mind can be contemplated until more thought has been given to the general problem of subjective and objective.”[6]
    While Nagel is sometimes categorized as a dualist for these sorts of remarks, he is more precisely categorized as an anti-reductionist. Nagel (1998) writes:
    “…I believe that there is a necessary connection in both directions between the physical and the mental, but that it cannot be discovered a priori. Opinion is strongly divided on the credibility of some kind of functionalist reductionism, and I won’t go through my reasons for being on the antireductionist side of that debate. Despite significant attempts by a number of philosophers to describe the functional manifestations of conscious mental states, I continue to believe that no purely functionalist characterization of a system entails—simply in virtue of our mental concepts—that the system is conscious.[7]

    from wiki of course :crazy_dru