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What is the title of Nagel's famous 1974 essay?

  • "The Universe and Beyond"

  • "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

  • "Exploring the Mind"

  • "The Theory of Everything"

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"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is the title of Thomas Nagel's 1974 essay. The essay is an attempt to explain the limits of human knowledge by exploring the possibility of knowing what it is like to be a bat.
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