Could you ever know what it’s like to be someone else?

Inner lives are probably unreachable, but we should still reach

My podcast this week deals with a question I’ve been chewing on since I was a kid: Can you ever really know what it’s like to be another person?

We generally assume the answer is yes, and we commonly say things like, “I know exactly how you feel.” But how close do we actually get?

Let’s start by asking this question about non-humans. Consider a bat, flitt…