{"id":505,"date":"2018-12-30T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=505"},"modified":"2018-12-30T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T12:45:09","slug":"fledermause-und-gefuhle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/30\/fledermause-und-gefuhle\/","title":{"rendered":"Flederm\u00e4use und Gef\u00fchle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/57\/Van_Gogh_-_Die_Fledermaus.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-506 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/12\/fledermaus-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/12\/fledermaus-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2018\/12\/fledermaus.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/10\/101019141250.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">This<\/a><\/strong> just confirms the incommensurability between what things actually <i>are<\/i> like and what they <i>feel like<\/i> (via any sense). Why should a seen distance (or form) be &#8220;shaped&#8221; differently from a heard distance (or form)&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>The correlation between the shape of things and what we can <i>do<\/i> with them is real enough. And their felt shape certainly accompanies (and in that sense correlates with) the viewing and doing.<\/p>\n<p>But (to repeat myself, with other words), apart from that, a sphere no more (nor less) &#8220;resembles&#8221; what it looks like than it resembles what it sounds like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And the point of the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comlab.ox.ac.uk\/activities\/ieg\/e-library\/sources\/nagel_bat.pdf\">What [does it feel] like to be a bat?<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; question, I take it, was &#8212; or ought to have been &#8212; to highlight that incommensurability (not to try to feel the way a bat feels: I suspect that in its essential features all feeling is pretty much of a muchness: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting are all varieties of feeling, just as seeing red vs seeing blue are; we can talk to a congenitally blind person about the world, because although he cannot see, he can feel &#8212; and of course all the rest of his correlations are intact).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just confirms the incommensurability between what things actually are like and what they feel like (via any sense). Why should a seen distance (or form) be &#8220;shaped&#8221; differently from a heard distance (or form)&#8230;? The correlation between the shape of things and what we can do with them is real enough. And their felt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/30\/fledermause-und-gefuhle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flederm\u00e4use und Gef\u00fchle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}