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Episode 27: The Mary's Room Thought Experiment

42m · HYPERFOCUS: A Podcast for Chaotic Minds · 09 Aug 11:00

What do color vision, philosophy, One Direction, artificial intelligence, and Howie Mandel have in common? Well...Rachel talks about them in this episode.

In all seriousness, join us this week on a deep dive into the human brain and the human condition as Rachel and Maddie discuss the Mary's Room thought experiment and the limits of science and intelligence.


Sources:

https://www.sfu.ca/~jillmc/JacksonfromJStore.pdf

https://medium.com/psy-lens/marys-room-thought-experiment-a01d8f4cadb3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument#Refutation_of_physicalism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGYmiQkah4o




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