Tuesday, 1 November 2011

BAT'S SONIC VIEW


The wall of music, in dark sounds of green


The noisy world, beyond what is seen


The Bat’s sonic view, of the  musical sky


 Of  echoes of creatures, fleeting by


Images and shades, of pitch and tone


Sonograms of life, and obstacles unknown


A puff of speech in grey-scale of silence


Colorless minds in harmonic resonance


Redness of red and the blueness of blue


The Qualia of life; a  mystical brew


You may look ; and you may  even see


But a  blinded bat can  you ever be ?


1 comment:

  1. This poem is based on the essay by Thomas Nagel " What's it like to be a bat " It discusses the mind body problem, subjectivity and the nature of Qualia .
    http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/nagel.htm

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