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Thomas Nagel's essay was based on the importance of consciousness and the subjective character of experience. Nagel makes some excellent points in his essay, What Does It Mean to Be a Bat? Explaining that we experience everything as subjective and not objective. After analyzing Nagel's essay, I have decided that he has a valid argument that each organism that experiences consciousness will experience it in its own way. Nagel also talks about the mind-body problem, discovered by René Descartes, which concerns the physical body interacting with the non-physical mind which also connects with consciousness because it is based on the understanding of the individual. Although Nagel points out that we can assume or try to understand a situation through our personal understanding, it will never be the same as actually being the person or thing experiencing something for itself. So, in other words, Nagel believes that there are some experiences that are completely beyond human understanding. Nagel argues that consciousness is the reason each of us differs in our opinions or perspectives on how we absorb everything we experience. Nagel emphasizes that consciousness and experience can only be viewed in a subjective context based on personal, non-objective opinions, interpretations, viewpoints, emotions, and judgments, which is fact-based, measurable, and observable. In other words, he is saying that each organism that experiences consciousness is unique because no other organism shares that experience. He goes on to explain that an organism has conscious mental states if there is something it means to be that organism, which Nagel called the subjective character of experience. That...... middle of paper......le, since I don't know what it means to be another human being, like a family member or a friend, but I know what it means to be me, then I really know What does it mean to be "human"? Assuming that man represents all humanity. In conclusion, I believe that Nagel makes a valid argument about subjective character and that each species experiences everything differently. And this is because their consciousness went through different experiences and interpreted everything in its own way. And this is the main reason for the mind-body problem, which has not been solved to this day. So, no matter how much we may feel the same thing, see the same thing, or go through the same process as the person next to us, the way we accommodate experiences based on our perspective will never be the same as anyone else's. person or organism.