According to Thomas Nagel, mental states cannot be reduced to brain states because
A) we can know everything there is to know about the brain without knowing what it is like to be in a mental state.
B) We can know everything there is to know about the mind without knowing what it is like to have a brain.
C) We can know everything there is to know about bats without knowing how bats fly.
D) We can know everything there is to know about bats without knowing how bats see.

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Thomas Nagel argues that mental states have subjective qualities (what it is like to experience them) that cannot be fully understood through objective descriptions of brain states. This is because one can have all the physical information about the brain and still not know what it is like to experience a particular mental state.

According to Thomas Nagel, Mental States Cannot Be Reduced to Brain