<div dir="auto">Mary is at a trolley switching station. The trolley is headed towards 5 people but she can pull a lever that will swich the track. There are 2 levers but only the red lever switches tracks...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:18 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Quoting Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>>:<br>
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> Could you define "understand"?<br>
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> Oh dear this is going to be the Chinese room all over again...<br>
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LOL. No its probably going to be worse. Its going to be: if Mary the <br>
color scientist lived her life in a black and white Chinese room, <br>
would she understand the meaning of "hóng" the Chinese word for "red"? <br>
Bonus question: Would Mary try to kill everyone if she managed to <br>
escape and saw red for the first time?<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br>
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