‘What’s it like to be a bat’ is fascinating philosophical question about consciousness. In this my last editorial I planned describe what an editor. But realised the content would focused mainly on editor does, which prompted these reflections bats, being and identity. We can observe bat, read its biology habits, even hang upside down if inclination takes us but we will never experience bat is....

With me, it happened in the beginning of the last decade (1990). When the post of editor of the unit's periodical became vacant, the Director, like most Directors, looked around him in search of his best friend or his worst enemy. He picked me for one of those two reasons, which one of them I have not found out. But it really does not make that much of a difference given the size of the problem...