Epipheno Phenomenal Qualia Frank Jackson Summary

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In the article Epiphenomenal Qualia, by Frank Jackson, he sets up a thought experiment in which scientist named Mary, who is highly educated in all that there is to know about the brain, is brought up in world that is solely black and white. So let’s imagine that there is a girl named Mary. Mary is an expert on color vision and a world renowned neurologist. However, she grew up in a room that was entirely in black and white, and she never has seen any colors. She learned from many black and white shows and books all there is to know about color vision and all that there is to know about how your eye perceives different colors. She knows all there is to know about the exact wavelengths of light that trigger our retinas when we look at a light