Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
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Practical Part – Mindlink sysrtem: “Concluding Remarks”
tion in question, or that the questions posed by the introduction of qualia are unanswerable
precisely because of the special properties defined for qualia. 404
Dennett’s most interesting conclusion from one of his thought experiments about
“Mary the colour scientist”. 405 I quote Dennett leading to the final conclusion,
very important to our own vision.
“Mary would therefore already know exactly what to expect of seeing red, before
she leaves the room (with only black and white, G.). Dennett argues that the misleading
aspect of the story is that Mary is supposed to not merely be knowledgeable
about colour but to actually know all the physical facts about it, which would
be a knowledge so deep that it exceeds what can be imagined, and twists our intuitions.”
(...) Dennett uses this example to show us that Mary’s all-encompassing
physical knowledge makes her own internal states as transparent as those of a
robot of computer, and it is almost straightforward for her to figure out exactly
how it feels to see red.
29.2.3 Finger down of the deficit
Dennett: “Perhaps Mary’s failure to learn exactly what seeing red feels
like is simply a failure of language, or a failure of our ability to describe
experiences. An alien race with a different method of communication or
description might be perfectly able to teach their version of Mary exactly
how seeing the colour red would feel. Perhaps it is simply a uniquely human
failing to communicate first-person experiences from a third-person
perspective.
404 Dennett, Daniel, Consciousness Explained, London 1988, and Quining Qualia,
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/quinqual.html
405 see for the entire thought experiments the extended article in Wikipedia (Qualia, Bennett).