She could then generate such memories in her own brain,
Mary is a super-sceintist in tersm of intelligence and memory, but doesn’t have special abilities to rewire her own cortex. Internally gerneating Red is a cheat, like pricking her thumb to observe the blood.
She isn’t generating Red, she’s generating a memory of the feeling Red generates without generating Red. She now knows what emotional state Red would make her feel, but hasn’t actually made herself see red. So when she goes outside she doesn’t say “Wow” she says “Oh, those feelings again, just as I suspected.”
So she’s bound and gagged, with no ability to use her knowledge? Seems implausible, but OK. (Did she get this knowledge by dictation, or by magically reaching out to the Aristotelian essences of neurons?)
In any case, at least two of us have linked to orthonormal’s mini-sequence on the matter. Those three posts seem much better than ESR’s attempt at the quest.
So she’s bound and gagged, with no ability to use her knowledge?
If by “using her knowledge” you mean performing neurosurgery in herself, I have to repeat that that is a cheat.Otherwise, I ha e to point put that knowledge of, eg. phontosynthesis, doesn’t cause photosynthesis.
Mary is a super-sceintist in tersm of intelligence and memory, but doesn’t have special abilities to rewire her own cortex. Internally gerneating Red is a cheat, like pricking her thumb to observe the blood.
She isn’t generating Red, she’s generating a memory of the feeling Red generates without generating Red. She now knows what emotional state Red would make her feel, but hasn’t actually made herself see red. So when she goes outside she doesn’t say “Wow” she says “Oh, those feelings again, just as I suspected.”
Why is she generating a memory? How is she generatign a memory?
So she’s bound and gagged, with no ability to use her knowledge? Seems implausible, but OK. (Did she get this knowledge by dictation, or by magically reaching out to the Aristotelian essences of neurons?)
In any case, at least two of us have linked to orthonormal’s mini-sequence on the matter. Those three posts seem much better than ESR’s attempt at the quest.
If by “using her knowledge” you mean performing neurosurgery in herself, I have to repeat that that is a cheat.Otherwise, I ha e to point put that knowledge of, eg. phontosynthesis, doesn’t cause photosynthesis.