One of the videos that I watched was called “What is it like to be a bat? and the problem of subjectivity (17/23)”. The video is from an interview with Susan Blackmore. She talks about a paper, “What is it like to be a bat”, by Thomas Nagel and how something can be considered conscious if that thing has subjective experience. However, clarifying what the “subjective experience” is where a problem arises, because experience is subjectively private. You can be told about an experience, but you can’t live that experience. That experience can’t truly be shared with anyone, yet people say that experience is caused by/created by an “objective” brain. The problem lies in these two contradicting explanations. How does a subjective experience arise from objective things like processing information in the brain? Questions like this make the question of consciousness in other lifeforms hard to answer. Is something’s experience private to only them or did it never exist in the first place?
Another video I watched was called “Exploring The Animal Mind”. The video talked about consciousness and how it may be connected to the quantum world/universe or something not physical. Due to consciousness having this seemingly “magical” aspect to it that can’t be explained, it’s seen as other worldly. In the same regard as the first video, consciousness can’t be shared, only explained from an outside perspective.
The video talked about how animals are considered conscious in the way that humans are considered conscious. The experiences between species vary, but an experience is lived through all the same. Animals can remember and call back to past observations and experiences and repeat them for their benefit and to communicate and this has been proven many times through different forms of research.