MixedNuts comments on Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MixedNuts 27 May 2011 03:02:39PM 5 points [-]

Then she knows things humans in their current form can't learn except by seeing red. Either she found a way to reprogram herself, or she has seen red, or the problerm is ill-posed because it equivocates between what humans can learn at all and what they can learn from reading words in textbooks.