TheOtherDave comments on Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia - Less Wrong
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What? That's the best treatment of the question I've seen yet, and seems to account for every possible angle. This makes no sense:
The plane in the thought experiment is not in a wind tunnel.
Treated realistically, the treadmill should not have any tethering ability, fancy or otherwise. Which interpretation of the problem were you going with?
A plane can move air over its own airfoils. Or why not make it a truck on a treadmill?