Mary's Room

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:philosophy
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Knowledge Argument
gptkbp:centralQuestion Does complete physical knowledge entail knowledge of conscious experience?
gptkbp:describes Mary, a scientist who knows all physical facts about color vision but has never experienced color
gptkbp:fictionalUniverse gptkb:Mary
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Mary's Room
gptkbp:influenced philosophical discussions on qualia
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Thomas_Nagel's_'What_is_it_like_to_be_a_bat?'
gptkbp:Mary'sDiscovery what it is like to see color
gptkbp:Mary'sExpertise neurophysiology of vision
gptkbp:Mary'sLimitation never seen color
gptkbp:proposedBy gptkb:Frank_Jackson
gptkbp:referencedIn philosophy of mind literature
gptkbp:topic philosophy of mind
consciousness
knowledge argument
qualia
gptkbp:type gptkb:physicalism
thought experiment
gptkbp:usedInDebate mind-body problem
gptkbp:yearProposed 1982
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:What_Mary_Didn't_Know_(1986)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6