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#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?

Within Reason

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The Neuroscientist Who Can Only See in Black and White

The Mary's room experiment is a famous thought of imagining somebody in a room who can't see any color. And they learn everything there is to know about color experience and brain states, you say. The question is that upon exiting that room and finally seeing something blue for the first time, do they learn something new? You seem to suggest in the book that they would do. "There isn't this mystery of this added element, this added thing that seems to exist that is something like redness," she says.

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