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Here's this famous question (I can't readily find a source so I will say as I remember) There is a scientist that studies color. She knows everything about it

Here's this famous question (I can't readily find a source so I will say as I remember) There is a scientist that studies color. She knows everything about it that can be possibly known. She knows the colors of everyday objects, she knows how colors work, how light's wavelength affects its transmission, etc etc. She is also fully colorblind (achromatopsia). One day, she finally can see colors somehow. She isn't colorblind anymore. The question is: now she can finally see the stuff she knew only intellectually, did she learn anything new?

lostmsu 2y ago
Of course, she instantly sees color details of nearby objects down to a millimeter, so shit ton of new information. Bringing this back to the joke she can now look at a colored strip and write down the colors in the order they appear on it. But the insinuation that drugs have similar effect is easily disproved by continued inability of the junkie to write down any new information. Again, nobody dared to answer GGP question about examples of any revelations.