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FWIW, I'm satisfied with Dennett's explanation. If Mary knows everything physical about color, then there's nothing for her to be surprised about when she sees red. If your intuitions tell you otherwise, then your intuitions are wrong.
This begs the question, to be sure, but think of it more like moving to a more appropriate field of battle.
Oops, I realized during editing that surprise is not so much what we should look for as learning, but I forgot to remove the instances of "surprise" from this post. Done.
In a day or two, I can better explain why I reject Dennett's explanation, but for now it's enough to note that it doesn't dissolve the question at all.