What is it like to be a bat?

What is it like to be bat? It was an interesting thought process when I read the section. When presented with Thomas Nagels' thought process about the perception I can understand where he is coming from. What I liked about his perspective is that while we can study a subject (in this case the bat) we can know all there is to know. When it comes down to it we can never understand the view of the bat because we cannot become a bat and understand how it really is. In my experience working with human services, I can never tell someone "I know how you feel". Truthfully no one can never know how another person feels, because it was a unique experience that the person had. One can only empathize with the person and the situation. Frank Jackson's explanation with Mary seems to me a tangible way to experience something that you have learned about. Although it seems more of an extreme example. It was a very clever way of describing how someone can experience something that has been learned and experienced uniquely for the first time.