What will happen when Mary is released from her black and
white room or is given a color television monitor?

She'll most likely be a character in the movie "Pleasantville"

Physicalism and Materialism essentially coexist in term pertaining to
observation of everything in the physical sense.  The whole notion of
everything having physical aspects seems a bit of a stretch.  Gravity,
for example, is physical in the sense of physical motion reactionary
to it but it doesn't place gravity itself, the actual force as being
or having a physical quality.  Can we materialize gravity or just make
note of the effects of it's existence?  I'd have to go with Frank
Jackson.  Looking at the absence of gravity I see all things
weightless floating about space but what is all that space, ie; what
exactly are things floating in?

On Jul 10, 10:48 pm, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to Ed Feser athttp://bit.ly/a6rSTn, "Physicalism claims
> that if you know all the physical facts that there are to know about
> people, then you know all the facts there are to know about them,
> period;"
>
> I came across Frank Jackson (1982) "knowledge argument"  against
> physicalism. Is it sound? Persuasive?
>
> "Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to
> investigate the world from a black and white room via a black and
> white television monitor. She specializes in the neurophysiology of
> vision and acquires, let us suppose, all the physical information
> there is to obtain about what goes on when we see ripe tomatoes, or
> the sky, and use terms like ‘red’, ‘blue’, and so on. She discovers,
> for example, just which wavelength combinations from the sky stimulate
> the retina, and exactly how this produces via the central nervous
> system the contraction of the vocal chords and expulsion of air from
> the lungs that results in the uttering of the sentence ‘The sky is
> blue’.… What will happen when Mary is released from her black and
> white room or is given a color television monitor? Will she learn
> anything or not? It seems just obvious that she will learn something
> about the world and our visual experience of it. But then is it
> inescapable that her previous knowledge was incomplete. But she had
> all the physical information. Ergo there is more to have than that,
> and Physicalism is false. "

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