Experiencing the More-than-Human Through Human Augmentation
arXiv Preprint Archive November 16, 2025 Botao 'Amber' Hu, Danlin Huang
The recent more-than-human turn in design calls for attentiveness to nonhuman beings. Yet -- as Thomas Nagel's famous ``What is it like to be a bat?'' thought experiment highlights -- human experience is constrained by our own sensorium and an irreducible gap in phenomenal access to nonhuman \emph{Umwelten}. Grounded in eco-phenomenology and eco-somatics, this paper proposes...