Consciousness is about the general state of the mind that experience have qualitative character (Morton 376), experience can be anything such as colors, smell, and feelings like pain, anguish; and they have been termed in different ways. Nagel and Jackson refer experience as subjective character, and qualitative character as “the aspect of sensation that has to do with what experience is like. Regarding the concept of consciousness, Nagel and Jackson have arguments against the possibility of physical accounts of consciousness. Both object that the qualitative aspect like consciousness and experience cannot be explained.
Nagel, in context to his article “What is it like to be a bat?,” he argues that it is impossible to explain and understand …show more content…
He claims that an organism be it an animal or a human being experiences what is called a conscious experience. It means that there is something to be like that organism. For example, if one had to behave like a cat without changing oneself then the experience of the person acting like a cat would not be as same as the experience of the cat itself. This is what Nagel refers it as a subjective character of experiences. By giving an example of a bat, he explains that it is impossible for someone to perceive about someone’s subjective experience that means that even though one can pretend to be a bat, but it can never have an experience like that of a bat. Lastly, accepting the idea of subjective experience is accepting the idea that “there is something that cannot be expressed in language (Morton 378). He further goes deep in the issue by explaining the relation between a subjective and objective. Again, taking the example of the bat, Nagel describes that even though bats have higher consciousness than human being and that they are