A Murder Of Crows, By Thomas Nagel

captured by humans, would then act out against the humans by cawing or swooping at them after release. The documentary, “A Murder of Crows”, stated that crows have the “ability to recognize and remember particular people, and even particular faces” (PBS, 2014). What was also quite interesting about this was that crows were able to recognize the faces of their captors after just one capture.
Thomas Nagel looked into the phenomenology of animals as well, more specifically, into that of bats. He believed that “the essence of the belief that bats have experience is that there is something that it is like to be a bat” (Nagel, 1974). What he is saying here is that for an animal to have consciousness, they should have the ability to see the world and experience it as no other could. Nagel goes on to say that “if the facts of experience, facts about what it is like for the experiencing organism, are accessible only from one point of view, then it is a mystery how the true character of experiences could be revealed in the physical operation of that organism” (Nagel, 1974). The bat can experience the world, but we will never experience it as it does, so it is said to have
Furthermore, this actions shows their ability to look to the future as they decide that they do not want to be captured again, and protest this. According to the documentary, “A Murder of Crows”, we learn that crows also memorize garbage truck routes so that they know where and when to get food. Once again, the ability to look into the past, (to recall when the trucks would arrive), and look towards the future, (know where to go next to find the food), shows that some animals have this ability to mentally time travel, and can do so due to their own, individual