Editing Subjective character of experience

{{short description|Psychology term}}

The '''''subjective character of experience''''' is a term in psychology and the [[philosophy of mind]] denoting that all [[subjectivity|subjective]] [[phenomena]] are associated with a single [[perspective (cognitive)|point of view]] ("[[Id, ego and super-ego|ego]]"). The term was coined and illuminated by [[Thomas Nagel]] in his famous paper "[[What Is It Like to Be a Bat?]]"<ref>Nagel, Thomas (1974) '''What is It Like to Be a Bat?''' ''The Philosophical Review'' LXXXIII, 4 (October): 435–50.</ref>

Nagel argues that, because bats are apparently [[conscious]] [[mammals]] with a way of perceiving their environment entirely different from that of [[human beings]], it is impossible to speak of "what is it like to ''be'' a bat ''for'' the bat" or, while the example of the bat is particularly illustrative, any conscious species, as each organism has a unique point of view from which no other organism can gather [[experience]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}} To Nagel, the subjective character of experience implies the [[Cognitive closure (philosophy)|cognitive closure]] of the human [[mind]] to some facts, specifically the [[mental state]]s that [[Human body|physical states]] create.

==See also==
* [[Dualism (philosophy of mind)]]
* [[Functionalism (philosophy of mind)|Functionalism]]
* [[Hallucinations in the sane]]
* [[Inverted spectrum]]
* [[Mary's Room]]
* [[Multiverse]]
* [[Philosophical zombies]]
* [[Philosophy of mind]]
* [[Philosophy of perception]]
* [[Physicalism]]
* [[Pragmatism]]
* [[Qualia]]
* [[Synesthesia]]
* [[Map–territory relation|The map is not the territory]]
* [[Vertiginous question]]

==References==
*{{Cite book |last=Michael |first=L.A. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/749947766 |title=The Principles of Existence & Beyond: Revelation of Enigma of the Existence |date=2007 |publisher=Visual Memes |isbn=978-1-84799-199-7 |oclc=749947766}}
*Song, D. ''Subjective Universe: Interweaving Matter and Mind through Cyclical Time.'' 2020
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