Potamon fluviatile as well as on the island of Sicily. Although it used to be found as far north as Lake Garda, "P. fluviatile" no longer occurs north of the River Po. In 1997 a population of "P. fluviatile" was discovered under the ruins of Trajan's Forum in the heart of Rome, living in canals built by the Etruscans which connect to the "Cloaca Maxima". Based on a genetic analysis, which demonstrated that these crabs were similar to those in Greece, researchers believe that they had been brought by the Greeks before the founding of the city, some 3000 years ago. The
What Is it Like to Be a Bat? What Is it Like to Be a Bat? "What is it like to be a bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in "The Philosophical Review" in October 1974, and later in Nagel's "Mortal Questions" (1979). In it, Nagel argues that materialist theories of mind omit the essential component of consciousness, namely that there is something that it is (or feels) like to be a particular, conscious thing. He argues that an organism has conscious mental states, "if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like "for"