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Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem has been experimentally tested and it turns out that
by Smaug123 5y ago
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem has been experimentally tested and it turns out that congenitally blind people, who are then granted sight, cannot automatically identify texture by sight alone; they have to learn to do so. So I would expect Mary to be unable to pass your test straight away, but I expect that she'll be able to learn do it with practice (because all the hardware is still there in her body, it just needs to be trained). And of course she'll be able to do it straight away given access to appropriate scientific instruments like a spectrometer; and she might be able to do it slowly and inaccurately without such instruments using her knowledge, in much the same way that I can multiply two three-digit numbers slowly and inaccurately.
Adding new primitives to your mental model of a thing is useless unless they're actually integrated with the rest of the model! Gaining access to "colour" primitives doesn't help you if the rest of your mental model was trained without access to them; you'll need some more training to integrate them.