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Old 07-04-2008, 06:28 AM
David Bailey David Bailey is offline
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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos View Post
You know, among the list of things that Mary learns in the black and white room is the answer to the knowledge argument thought experiment. Ain't that interesting?

~~ Paul
But only in the case that a materialist description of consciousness is valid. In the other perspectives, she never succeeds in gaining a total understanding of visual qualia, and the experiment is impossible in principle.

David
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