When1: 1970
When2: 1991
Who: Thomas Nagel [Nagel, Thomas]
What: philosopher
Where: USA
works\ Possibility of Altruism [1970]; What Is It Like To Be a Bat? [1974]; Mortal Questions [1979]; View from Nowhere [1986]; What Does It All Mean? [1987]; Equality and Partiality [1991]
Detail: He lived 1937 to ?. Consciousness is subjective experience. Organisms are conscious if and only if there are mental phenomena {something it is like} to be that organism. Subjective experience has one viewpoint, unlike objective physical theory.
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