# Thomas Nagel
**Domain:** Philosophy of Mind / Ethics
**Doc Type:** Thinker Node
**Maturity:** Evolving
**Related:** [[The Mind's I]], [[Consciousness]], [[Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]], [[Substrate-Neutral Moral Patienthood|Moral Patienthood]]
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## Definition
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher whose work on subjective character argues that an organism's point of view cannot be exhausted by an objective functional description.
## Corpus Context
His inclusion in [[The Mind's I]] strengthens the corpus's insistence that continuity evidence and third-person performance do not automatically settle first-person experience.
## Relationships
[[The Mind's I]], [[Consciousness]], [[Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]], [[Substrate-Neutral Moral Patienthood|Moral Patienthood]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]