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Philosophers of /lit/ where do you stand on the Mary’s Room thought experiment? I for one definitely think that Mary’s experience of another color would have taught her something new

>> No.12849173

The universe is ideal

>> No.12849187

>>12849125
the rational is the real

>> No.12849201

>>12849173
I mean like the universe as reality

>> No.12849210

>>12849201
the universe as the rational?

>> No.12849229

>>12849125
Same.

Some fags would say is not knowledge she gained tho, it's something else

>> No.12849238

Why can humans see colour anyway? Evolutionarily it doesn’t really give an advantage since colourful things are usually deadly, poisonous, or useless.

>> No.12849254

>>12849238
it would be a huge evolutionary advantage to identify deadly or poisonous things at a glance

>> No.12849260

>>12849238
Imagine trying to eat fruits but not knowing whether or not it's ripe.

>> No.12849261

if someone knew everything about tennis down to anatomy and physics, but had never played, you wouldn't be surprised by the fact that they wouldn't be all that good at the game, would you?

Mary gains an ability, not information

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>>12849238
>Evolutionarily it doesn’t really give an advantage since colourful things are usually deadly, poisonous,
>Evolutionarily it doesn’t really give an advantage
>colourful things are usually deadly, poisonous
>doesn’t really give an advantage
>deadly
>poisonous

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>>12849125

The premise is WHOLLY moronic and a textbook example of Anglo troglodytism. Confounding Solipsism with Subjective Idealism is one thing, but confounding the Empirical with the Ideal, claiming the former is not only an Epistemological locus as such, but that it is contrary to the latter as per the usual terrible Anglo arguments about Idealism in general; it's TRULY awful.

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>>12849238
fruits and reptiles, retard