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I absolutely have a problem with considering "imagining" (especially something you've never experienced before) the same as "experiencing". I'm sorry, but givin

by the_af 4y ago

I absolutely have a problem with considering "imagining" (especially something you've never experienced before) the same as "experiencing". I'm sorry, but giving Mary such superpowers completely invalidates the experiment for me. It sounds too much of the old Maths joke: "let's consider a spherical cow."

pdonis 4y ago
> giving Mary such superpowers completely invalidates the experiment for me This complaint should be addressed, not to me, but to Jackson, whose premise for the thought experiment gives Mary such "superpowers". I agree that such a premise is completely unrealistic and invalidates the thought experiment. Unfortunately many philosophers do not appear to have gotten the memo.