In 1974, the philosopher Thomas Nagel published the paper: "What it is like to be a bat?". The answer is, no surprise, we have no idea. We cannot enter the skull of another person, let alone another species, to experience directly the emotions that rats or bats or other humans feel. Our access is limited to the mechanical, external behavior, that may or may not accompany a certain type of emotion.
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