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Mary certainly experiences something new, but does she learn something new? Maybe for humans. Since we use empathy to project our own experiences onto those of others, humans tend to learn something new when they feel something new. If we already had perfect knowledge of the other, it's not clear that we learn anything new, even when we feel something new.
Agreed, with the addendum that human intuition has trouble fathoming the 'perfect knowledge of the other' scenario. If seeing red caused Mary to want to see more color, we'd be tempted to describe it as her 'learning' the pleasure of color, whether or not Mary's predictions about anything changed.