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

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Comment author: thomblake 31 May 2011 08:55:07PM 0 points [-]

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:

A horizontally tethered plane in a wind tunnel would rise.

The plane in the thought experiment is not in a wind tunnel.

The treadmill is just a fancy tether.

Treated realistically, the treadmill should not have any tethering ability, fancy or otherwise. Which interpretation of the problem were you going with?

Comment author: Peterdjones 31 May 2011 09:11:27PM 0 points [-]

The plane in the thought experiment is not in a wind tunnel.

A plane can move air over its own airfoils. Or why not make it a truck on a treadmill?