Episode 6.33: Why it is so difficult to imagine what it is like to be a bat, even to be our selves.

We continue our exploration of what it’s like to be an ant or what sort of intelligence an anthill is displaying and whether it needs to be intentional, and then we think about what kind of intelligence a Vogon may believe that we have, and how superior intelligences can perhaps not imagine what it is like to be human any more than we can imagine what it is like to be a dog or a bat or an ant or a virus. Yet once we allow for a multiplicity of sources of self-referential knowledge, the picture again changes.