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What Experience Teaches
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Lewis’s selected ability hypothesis proposes that experience can teach recognition, recollection and imagination. It challenges an inference from new learning to new nonphysical facts without completing a physical explanation of experience.
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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.