RE: What makes people irrational thinkers?
December 21, 2021 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2021 at 9:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Marys room is self defeating on it's own premises, unfortunately. It asks us whether a scientist who knows everything there is to know about color will gain new knowledge when they step out of their black and white world and into the world of color. The answer is no, as per the premise. They already know everything about color, and everything about color, includes the phenomena of color experience. Now we know that's not true of people, but it is true of hypothetical characters in a thought experiment. Hence the disconnect.
Another good example of why people are irrational thinkers. We need only the barest of pretense to declare the irrational otherwise. It's a gap-by-proxy argument couched in sloppy phrasing and hidden assertions. May as well simply, more clearly, and more accurately ask - if someone who doesn't know everything experiences a new thing will they have additional knowledge, and the answer is a no-shit yes.
More perplexingly, it's not clear how the addition of any new information where there is new information is taken by default to be a or non-physical. May as well say that if I learn any new thing tomorrow, say the exact weight of a stone I'd never before seen....that proves the existence of the immaterial.
Another good example of why people are irrational thinkers. We need only the barest of pretense to declare the irrational otherwise. It's a gap-by-proxy argument couched in sloppy phrasing and hidden assertions. May as well simply, more clearly, and more accurately ask - if someone who doesn't know everything experiences a new thing will they have additional knowledge, and the answer is a no-shit yes.
More perplexingly, it's not clear how the addition of any new information where there is new information is taken by default to be a or non-physical. May as well say that if I learn any new thing tomorrow, say the exact weight of a stone I'd never before seen....that proves the existence of the immaterial.
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