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

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Comment author: nshepperd 29 May 2011 01:40:42AM 0 points [-]

I mean surprise in the sense of the feeling, which doesn't have to be justified to be felt. Perhaps a better word is "enlightenment". Seeing red feels like enlightenment because the brain is put into a state it has never been in before, as a result of which Mary gains the ability (through memory) to put her brain into that state at will.