"Mary lives in far future when neuroscience is complete and scientists
know everything there is to know about the physical processes in the
brain and how they produce behaviour. Mary specializes in the
neurophysiology of colour vision. She knows everything there is to
know about colour perception, about the optics of the eye, the
properties of the coloured objects in the world, and the processing of
colour information in the visual system. She knows exactly how certain
wavelengths of light stimulate the retina and produce the contraction
of the vocal chords and expulsion of the air that results in someone
saying 'the sky is blue'.
But Mary has been brought up all her life in a black and white room,
observing the world through a black and white television monitor. She
has never seen any colours at all.
One day Mary is let out of her black and white room and sees colours
for the first time. What happens?
Will she gasp with amazement and say "Wow! I never realized red would
look like that!"
or will she just shrug and say "That's red, that's green, nothing new
of course."
This quote is form Susan Balckmore book 'The Cocsciousness. An
introduction'. Remember that this thought experiment was developed by
philosopher Frank Jackson in 1982.
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know everything there is to know about the physical processes in the
brain and how they produce behaviour. Mary specializes in the
neurophysiology of colour vision. She knows everything there is to
know about colour perception, about the optics of the eye, the
properties of the coloured objects in the world, and the processing of
colour information in the visual system. She knows exactly how certain
wavelengths of light stimulate the retina and produce the contraction
of the vocal chords and expulsion of the air that results in someone
saying 'the sky is blue'.
But Mary has been brought up all her life in a black and white room,
observing the world through a black and white television monitor. She
has never seen any colours at all.
One day Mary is let out of her black and white room and sees colours
for the first time. What happens?
Will she gasp with amazement and say "Wow! I never realized red would
look like that!"
or will she just shrug and say "That's red, that's green, nothing new
of course."
This quote is form Susan Balckmore book 'The Cocsciousness. An
introduction'. Remember that this thought experiment was developed by
philosopher Frank Jackson in 1982.
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hoffe bin hier im richtigen forum.
