My conjecture was basically employing a fancy neural net that would transmit vision, hearing, and sensation, to the researcher. Smell is something a biologist would need to work on since it's complex. This would be used not to control Mr. Bat, but to relay the bat's experiences to the human. Based on reception, alone, we'd get more info on what it is like being a bat? As in, "By golly, that mosquito sure tasted good," or, "That wind is nice."
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 6:31 PM Jason Resch <jason...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They {bats} could in some sense even feel the surfaces with such sonar: is the surface smooth or rough, hard or soft, etc. Sound reflects differently from different types of surfaces.
Yes.
> Would they feel these surface differences as colors,What you mean is, would they sense these surface differences as I SEE colors?
> or would it feel more like tactile sensations?What you mean is, would they sense these surface differences as I FEEL surfaces? The answer to both questions is a resounding NO. A particular bat senses surfaces not as you do but as a particular bat does. The only way Jason Resch Could ever know what it's like to be a particular bat would be for Jason Resch to turn into that bat, and even then he wouldn't know because then he wouldn't be Jason Resch anymore, he'd be a bat. And even a bat doesn't know what it's like to be another bat.
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