What Is it Like to Be a Bat? perceptional experiences. While it is possible to imagine what it would be like to fly, navigate by sonar, hang upside down and eat insects like a bat, that is not the same as a bat's perspective. Nagel claims that even if humans were able to metamorphose gradually into bats, their brains would not have been wired as a bat's from birth; therefore, they would only be able to experience the life and behaviors of a bat, rather than the mindset. Such is the difference between subjective and objective points of view. According to Nagel, "our own mental activity is the
What a Guy! the Latest?" (Tor, 1990). Reader reaction to the strip was widely varied. One person wrote in "The Philadelphia Inquirer" that "What a Guy!" was one of the "worst comics around" while a couple wrote to the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" to deride the strip as "merely insipid" and that it "warrants no more space than "Trudy" or "Marmaduke"". A "Lakeland Ledger" reader commented, after the paper dropped "What a Guy!" in favor of "Calvin and Hobbes", that "What a Guy!" was "one of the best and funniest comic strips" the paper printed. What a Guy! What a Guy! is an American comic