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Ep. 218: The Hard Problem of Consciousness (Chalmers et al) (Part One)

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How Mary's Knowledge of Color Vision Can Translate Visual Images

Wesley Clark: You're arguing that Mary's knowledge about all the facts of color vision could be a kind of translation. So you're saying that what it's like to see infrared for an animal that can naturally see infrared is gonna be still an inaccessible experience to us, even if you put on infrared goggles. And so now you know for youwhat it's like for a human to see infrared using this translator apparatus. He says there's something structural about what's happening. It doesn't have to be the eye in particular that sees as long as you get the right input patterns.Clark: But I think it would be a real stretch to say that knowing all the neuroscientific and scientific

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