Mary's Room
Mary's Room
Real World
Mary knows every wavelength, retinal cell, and neural pathway involved in seeing red, yet the moment she walks out of her black-and-white room and sees a ripe tomato, she gains something new — the felt experience of redness — which no physics textbook could have given her.
Exam Focus
Engage directly with Lewis's 'ability hypothesis' as a physicalist reply; showing awareness of counterarguments earns the higher AO2 marks.
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