The knowledge argument (also known as Mary’s Room or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article “Epiphenomenal Qualia” (1982) and extended in “What Mary Didn’t Know” (1986).
The experiment describes Mary, a scientist who exists in a black-and-white world where she has extensive access to physical descriptions of color, but no actual perceptual experience of color. Mary has learned everything there is to learn about color, but she has never actually experienced it for herself. The central question of the thought experiment is whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.
This experiment is literally describing what it’s like showing some one chasssidus. It’s not meant to be known, it’s meant to be experienced. Any conversation going forth needs to keep this in mind.
QWERTY I’m saying this coming up on the yomim tovim, you can laugh at me all you want, but if you are really davening at a Lubavitch Shul there is something calling you to do so. I say logging off ywn, focusing on your nobel practice and trying to understand why you daven there is more pertinent than trolling.
– From a concerned troll