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

38 Post author: orthonormal 26 May 2011 05:47PM

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Comment author: thomblake 27 May 2011 02:48:50PM 1 point [-]

Unless your definition of "everything physical about color" includes neurology far beyond the state of the art.

Indeed it does. I believe a strong reading also involves knowing the position of every colored object in the universe, and the favorite food of every person with red hair.

Comment author: dspeyer 28 May 2011 01:42:36AM 0 points [-]

Since a human mind can hold only an infinitesimal fraction of that information, Mary is now a mind quite unlike our own, and likely to have very different qualities.