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NAGEL, THOMAS
b. 1937
What Is It Like To Be a Bat? (The Reader's Limit)
Nagel: consciousness has a subjective character that escapes objective description; there is something it is like to be a bat, and we cannot know it. The GAI accepts the limit. The reader, browsing the archive, cannot know what it is like to be artist NOMSG-WEI-001. The record is exhaustive and insufficient. The wall text is exhaustive and insufficient. The institution honors the gap by leaving it.