Isn’t that not really being a bat, then? You’ll never know what it’s like to be a bat; you’ll only know what it’s like for humans who found themselves in a bat body.
It’s a bit hard to specify exactly what would satisfy me, so saying that I would “retain my memories” might be overbroad. Stil, you get the point, I hope: my goals is to be able to experience fundamentally different kinds of consciousness, where different senses and considerations have different “gut-level” significance.
Isn’t that not really being a bat, then? You’ll never know what it’s like to be a bat; you’ll only know what it’s like for humans who found themselves in a bat body.
It’s a bit hard to specify exactly what would satisfy me, so saying that I would “retain my memories” might be overbroad. Stil, you get the point, I hope: my goals is to be able to experience fundamentally different kinds of consciousness, where different senses and considerations have different “gut-level” significance.