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

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Comment author: DaFranker 23 January 2013 05:36:56PM *  0 points [-]

Agreed on what about Mary's room?

Its "nature".

Mary's Room is:

  • A thought experiment.
  • Supposed to be an intuition pump.
  • Not a formal proof of anything.

Possible conditional extension:

  • Of usefulness dependent upon the relevance of its premises, the things it seeks to make you think about, and the reliability of human intuition.