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thanks

Submitted by Nelly Khaselev on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 8:36am.
First I’d like to say I am glad you tried to explain to us “what a text looks like to you” – thanks! Ever since I moved to America, every English teacher I had, had referred me to get tested for dyslexia as well; and every time the test reveals I just have poor spelling skills. I inverted letters, or skipped some if I was not being extremely careful, the word ‘experience’ was and is still never spelled right. Thank god for spell check on word! I read most of the article “what is it like being a bat” and found it very interesting. The idea that our perceptions are only as good as our words and language is important to understand. There is always that feeling you want to convey, but just can’t express in words even after you hastily search through the thesaurus! Building on this, Thomas Nagel claims man cannot know what is it like to be a bat because he is not a bat himself and his perception of what it is like being a bat is only as good as an essay or data could reveal. This is due to being human, and it is our crime of subjectivity that prevents us from really knowing what it is like to be bat. But of course we cannot escape from being human, and with that we cannot escape our curiosity to try to get as close as we can to know what it is like being a bat – or dyslexic for that matter.

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