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Frank Jackson: The Greatest Argument Against Materialism

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The Importance of Knowledge

If Mary has all the neuroscience of color experience, and that's the full story, she shouldn't be able to learn anything new. One way I've sometimes tried in teaching this is to make a comparison with information about a place, say Paris. Would she then learn anything new by actually visiting Paris? And I, of course, setting aside the experience, the nature of the experience, as she would have,. That takes us back to the knowledge argument.

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