Objective And Subjective View Of Nagel's Impact On The Human Body

Nagel argues, “The fact that an organism has conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something it is like to be that organism.” (Nagel, p. 1). Therefore, our thoughts, ideas, emotions are the equivalent of chemical reactions. Our emotions and thoughts can cause a chemical code that affects the way our body and mind interrupts things. The way our bodies react to certain stimuli when conscious or unconscious can be different. An example would be that while I am at the doctor’s office, the doctor takes a small mallet and hits my knee looking for a knee jerk reaction. Therefore, my knee jerks and I am conscious of the movement because I saw it transpire and felt the mallet hit my knee. But for a person who may have been in an accident, when the doctor hits the knee, the same reaction may occur, but it is possible that the person may not have felt it or seen it if they are in a state of unconsciousness or medically induced coma, but yet we are still unaware of what that person is feeling even though they do not show emotion. It has been medically confirmed that people in a coma can still hear the person that is talking to them even though they show no movement or emotion.
To differentiate between objective and subjective points of view we need to understand the challenges and experiences that an individual may have gone through that makes them who they are today. We only can compare our self to our self since we are the only one who really knows what if feels like to be our individual self. Nagel suggests that the biological and physical process that makes consciousness something more could be the “single point of view.” (Nagel, P. 4). Thus, suggesting that any conscious experience needs to be looked at as objective. Without subjective and objective experience, the physical process cannot be