"Science and Our Inner Lives: Birds of Prey, Bats, and the Common (Featherless) Bi-ped."

Physiological facts about various species differ dramatically from the physiological facts about human species (e.g., eye-visual structure of birds vs. eye-visual structure of humans). But does human physiology experience have value in interpreting or projecting the subjective experience of other species--and by extension, even other humans?

I. Nagel ("What Is It Like to Be a Bat?") asserts there is no scientific answer to explaining subjective (mental) experience of self or others.

A. Nagel's claim that physical science cannot answer questions of the mind cannot be disproved; however,

1. Scientific approach may provide useful answers to difficult question

2. Deep intuition on which Nagel relies is not as useful as science

B. Main problem is to expose difficulties that "intuitive" approach to mind-body prob

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)