Articles by Eleanor Nelsen

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Mary’s Room: A Philosophical Thought Experiment
Eleanor Nelsen | TED-Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Sep 2021

Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything about perceiving color that wasn’t captured in her knowledge?

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