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The selected Mary argument in Jackson’s essay asks what someone gains on first experiencing color after knowing its physical account. The lesson does not adopt the essay’s further claim that felt qualities lack physical effects.
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Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 82
What would explain conscious experience?
Does Mary learn something new when she first sees color? Jackson argues that she learns what the experience is like; Lewis’s ability hypothesis questions whether that is a new fact, and Chalmers separates explaining functions from explaining experience.