“You can know what it's like to be an elephant”
Agree
- Empathy lets us understand others
- Imagination bridges the gap
- Shared mammalian experience
- Scientific study reveals their perspective
- We can approximate their experience
Disagree
- Consciousness is inherently private
- Different sensory organs create different reality
- You can never truly be another being
- Human bias limits understanding
- Subjective experience is untranslatable