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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Mary the Color Scientist Argument

The Mary color scientist experiment is a philosophy thought experiment. The idea is that Mary, the color scientist, grows up in an environment where there are no colors. She learns by reading books or watching YouTube videos that have been grayscale. Then we let her walk out into the world and see something that is red for the first time - she now experiences something.

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