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Thomas Nagel: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Thomas Nagel, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• You can know every fact about a bat's brain and still not know what it's like to be one

  Thomas Nagel argued that even a complete physical description of a bat's sonar-based brain — every neuron, every signal — would leave out something essential: the subjective experi…

  — Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

• Two equally reckless drivers can face wildly different moral judgment

  Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel pointed out that a drunk driver who kills a pedestrian is judged far more harshly than an equally drunk driver who happens to make it home safe, e…

  — Bernard Williams & Thomas Nagel, Moral Luck

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