-It depends from the claim. If a blind person describes accurately a layout of a space without having any information by a third person then you can confirm it.Or if a blind person claims to have seen briefly is there anything they could say to confirm that they did in fact see versus be told what seeing is by someone else and regurgitated? — TiredThinker
I am looking for a way to not dismiss NDEs as they seem to be emotional experiences and the Parnia experiments involving upward facing numbers are less emotional in nature. — TiredThinker
If I was to describe everything I know of sight to a blind person who has always been blind could I even begin to make it clear what I perceive? — TiredThinker
The knowledge argument (also known as Mary's room) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982) and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986).
The experiment describes Mary, a scientist who exists in a black and white world where she has extensive access to physical descriptions of color, but no actual perceptual experience of color. The central question of the thought experiment is whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside the black and white world and experiences seeing in color.
When we see color I think we only gain knowledge about the physical phenomenon that allows for the phenomenon of color, namely wavelength? — TiredThinker
How does Mary describe the knowledge? — TiredThinker
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