We certainly do know how bats see with their ears. It's called echo-location - very similar to sonar/radar - which we do all the time. "Sheepdogs can herd sheep better than any human." Running faster the humans allows them to do that. If humans ran that fast, I'm sure we could do it too. "intelligent considering how physically small their brains" there's no correllation between brain size and intelligence. "Dragonflies have been around for hundreds of millions of years and are exquisitely highly evolved to carry out their primary function of eating other bugs." That's basic evolution, what's the point? Feels like this was writeen written by AI. Should have just gotten to the point without all this exposition.
Neal was referring to Tom Nagel's famous essay, "What is it Like to be a Bat?".
From wikipedia: "The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consciousness, including the potential insolubility of the mind–body problem owing to "facts beyond the reach of human concepts", the limits of objectivity and reductionism, the "phenomenological features" of subjective experience, the limits of human imagination, and what it means to be a particular, conscious thing."
It would be taken for granted by nearly all participants in such bunfights that all of the others are familiar with that essay and the discussion it provoked.
This cheap remark doesn't add anything to the discussion, especially considering who the author you're insulting is. Most of us will overlook a logical flaw or two to follow his big-picture thinking.
"Feels like" means it's my opinion and not a fact which I am allowed to have.
There is no logical flaw, these are factual.
You didn't add anything to the discussion either except critize me for calling the author out on their errors. What they wrote was far from correct and if I can't call it out then let's never call out fake info ever again. Why bother having a justice system?
As for who he is, I don't care. You're basically saying, if the POTUS says something completely false, you'd be OK with it because they are the president.
