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    The knowledge argument therefore establishes only a diffe... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Mary the super color scientist lacks understanding of what it is like to experience red despite her complete physical knowledge of color

    The knowledge argument therefore establishes only a difference in modes of access to physical information, not a gap in the physical information itself.

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    • 1.Mary learns no new physical facts about color wavelengths; she only gains ability to recognize those facts through direct experience.
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    • 2.All information Mary acquires in the room is ultimately reducible to physical properties of light, neurology, and brain states.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'knowing that' and 'knowing how' explains why new subjective access doesn't entail new physical content.
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    • 1.If Mary gains genuinely new knowledge upon seeing red, that knowledge constitutes new information not contained in physical facts.
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    • 2.Subjective phenomenal experience (qualia) exhibits properties—like intrinsic redness—that physical descriptions cannot capture or exhaust.
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    • 3.The difference between Mary's epistemic states before and after represents a real gap in what physical information can provide.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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