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From the page: "In other words, we are to imagine a scientist who knows everything there is to know about the science of color, but has never experienced color. The interesting question that Jackson raises is: Once she experiences color, does she learn anything new?"

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Rated by tsjhkjthksjhsdfs on Feb 04 2009, 3:14pm

From the page: "In other words, we are to imagine a scientist who knows everything there is to know about the science of color, but has never experienced color. The interesting question that Jackson raises is: Once she experiences color, does she learn anything new?"
Rated by bigjanproduction on Feb 04 2009, 2:45pm

The First and Second Amendment Combined. come on, that's funny.
Rated by DarkSteele on Feb 04 2009, 2:15pm

Just learned about this in my PHIL class. WAOW!
Rated by shiftplus on Jul 18 2008, 6:57am

From the page: "Dennett argues that although we cannot conceive of such a deep knowledge, if a premise of the thought experiment is that Mary knows all there is to know about color, we cannot assume that we can fathom or even describe such knowledge; or that such knowledge doesn't exist."

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