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. "
