what-it's-like-ness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The qualitative character of consciousness. uncountable
    — Thomas Nagel brought into contemporary debates the notion of what-it's-like-ness by claiming that in order to understand an entity as conscious, there must be something that it is like to be that thing. There is nothing that it's like to be a bat, he said, it's not possible for us to imagine what it's like to be a bat.

词源

From what + it's + like + -ness.
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