Mary's Room is a thought experiment that attempts to establish that there are non-physical properties and attainable knowledge that can be discovered only throu

Mary's Room is a thought experiment that attempts to establish that there are non-physical properties and attainable knowledge that can be discovered only through conscious experience. From the beginning the argument pre-supposes there is objective knowledge that can learnt. As we know from relativity and quantum theory, there is no objective truth. The location of every atom, cell or neuron is unique to every observer. Reading the RGB encoding of a photo, one number at a time, compared to seeing the photo with your own eyes, are different experiences. Imagine if each of our senses are different dimensions of perception, different ways of learning knowledge (reading about color through a book vs experiencing color with eyes) are orthogonal to each other. You can only connect those experiences and imagine colours after you've experienced it with your own eyes - your brain can "fake" perceptions, but only after having experienced the same kind of perception previously. This blind man regained vision at 68: When he went to the corner store with his sister, he handed the cashier a $10 bill when he really should have handed a $5 bill...The idea of remembering things visually is hard as well, and he still resorts to touching and feeling the world around him to store those memories. Of course while blind he'd been able to differentiate between $5 and a $10, but once he's regained his vision the touch-knowledge isn't connected to his vision-knowledge immediately. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382619/Canadian-man-born-blind-sees-time-age-68.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382619/Canadian-man... Knowing how neurone in our brains work is different to having those neurons interacting with each other. I argue "knowledge", if exists, can be interpreted only through the filter of qualia. No human knows anything without experience. Even reading a page of C code can only be done through our eyes and our mind and compared through previous experience in reading the same. Our minds are qualia, period. As this was a philosophical argument I'll post a poem from a philosopher. Thus Something and Nothing produce each other; The difficult and the easy complement each other; The long and the short off-set each other; The high and the low incline towards each other; Note and sound harmonize with each other; Before and after follow each other. http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?m=NOzh&l=Daodejing&no=2 http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?m=NOzh&l=Daodejing&no... With your babel fish you listen to an alien recording "A tall being and a short being once stood here". You wonder, having never met or seen any sign of aliens besides this audio recording, how tall and how short were those beings?