What Is It (not) Like to Be a Bat?

The work 'What Is It (not) Like to Be a Bat?' is a contemporary interpretation of the famous paper 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat' (1974) by the American philosopher Thomas Nagel. The work consists of a self-built headset which uses three ultrasonic sensors and a gyroscope, translating the data in real-time into sound — analogous to the sonar of a bat — creating an interactive musical 'Bat-Theme'. Hence, it is not only questioning the hard problem of consciousness and the line between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, but also the urge to of science, philosophy and technology to solve it, which might be impossible by nature.