16: Experience, Knowledge and Qualia

If you knew every physical fact about the world but had only experienced the confines of a black and white room would you learn anything new when you see a ripe red tomato for the first time? This episode of the egg timer considers this thought experiment and the threats to the physicalist world view that it poses. Send over your thoughts, questions or ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Art Attribution: By made by Was a bee. - Original strawberry's image is from Image:Fragaria_Fruit_Close-up.jpg uploaded by User:FoeNyx,and original man's image is from Image:Munemitsu Mutsu 2.jpg uploaded by User:Ueda.H,and I User:Was a bee combined it in one image., CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=709740