Experience is the best teacher

Experience is the best teacher

Experience is the best teacher. Learning through experience is more effective than hearing stories. The art of driving is only enjoyed when one is behind the while. Likewise, family feuds can only be understood by people who experience it. The family problem has victimized many. What my friend is going through, I know what he feels because I was once there. I know my friend is going through stress, which has impacted his physical symptoms and mental health. The negative family relationship causes mental illness, distress, anger, upset, or even other lifestyle diseases. In a nutshell, I am fully aware and understand what my friend is going through.

Nagel would think that I don’t understand what my friend is going through because, according to him, experiences are only accessible from the first person’s perspective. Besides, he is puzzling how the character experience can be explained through science. Nagel claims another person will never felt people’s imagination about what other people go through. “We might be able to imagine what it would be for us to be like a bat, but we cannot imagine what it is for a bat to be like a bat.” The idea of the subjective character of experience Nagel discards it; he terms it as absurd. Nigel says that, in such a phenomenal experience, the conscience would have to have the physical/seen attribute of which it is impossible to show because it is subjective to the conscience of experience (Nagel. Pg. 437-439).

Nagel uses Bat to clarify the difference between objective and subjective concept. According to him, the human will experience behavior and life and not the mindset of a bat. That is why mental activity is the unquestionable fact of experiences. Therefore, Nagel will dispute the one feeling for others and claims that the third person will never understand what the first person is going through.