(January 19, 2016 at 4:59 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:Not exactly. Mary was deprived of the physical data set necessary to experience color. The thought experiment focuses on whether any kind of monist reduction is possible. It takes no particular stand with respect to supervenience.(January 18, 2016 at 1:37 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Are you saying that psychological facts don't count? (Mary's Room, Jackson).The Mary's room' thought experiment doesn't really disprove physicalism though...Mary was -intentionally- deprived of the PHYSICAL experience of seeing color!
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