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ozy | 3 years ago
That resolves the whole Mary knowledge problem. Books cannot inject that kind of direct knowledge. Thus the claim "mary knows everything" is either false, or only true for a smaller domain.
One can think of analogies, like tamper resistant logs, or unique CPU states while doing static analysis vs running a program.
All in all, the non-physicalist conclusions are widely overdrawn. More over, for what it is worth, Jackson himself no longer thinks this argument is a good one.
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