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The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy

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Qualia, Robots and Complementarity of Subject and Object

The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 1998 Piotr Bołtuć

Jackson claims that a person who sees colors for the first time by this very fact acquires a certain knowledge which she or he could not have learned in a black and white world. This argument can be generalized to other secondary qualities. I argue that this claim is indefensible without implicit recourse to the first-person experience; also Nagel’s "what it is like" argument is polemically...