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Comment author: Unknowns 14 April 2015 11:59:40AM 9 points [-]

People have already been cured of complete blindness from birth (e.g. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/people-cured-blindness-see ). Not much seems to be revealed by this, especially since in the Mary's room experiment, she is supposed to know everything there is to know about color in advance, and obviously this is not true in such cases.