OPM Disability Retirement Help: The Man from Mars
It is a strangeness that cannot be avoided. Sort of like Thomas Nagel’s famous philosophical essay, “What is it like to be a bat — for a bat?” It is the “for a bat” that makes all of the difference; for, as Nagel himself pointed out, it is easy to imagine what it is like to be a bat — i.e., have wings, fly in the dark of night, screech, eat bugs, etc. However, the uniqueness of actually being another creature […]