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

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Comment author: Peterdjones 31 May 2011 07:44:49PM 0 points [-]

Not being able to make the neurons fire doesn't mean you don't know how it would feel if they did.

OK. Do you know that? Does Mary?

Comment author: JamesAndrix 31 May 2011 10:32:35PM *  0 points [-]

Well, through seeing red, yes ;-)

Through study, no. I think the knowledge postulated is beyond what we currently have, and must include how the algorithm feels from the inside. (edit: Mary does know through study.)