What is a Fact?

Can Mary learn anything in the Knowledge Argument? Let me know in the comments!

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REFERENCES

The Knowledge Argument:
Jackson, F. (1982). Epiphenomenal qualia. The Philosophical Quarterly, 127-136. http://thatmarcusfamily.org/philosoph...

Jackson, F. (1986). What Mary didn't know. The Journal of Philosophy, 291-295. http://www.univpgri-palembang.ac.id/p...


On Physicalism and Qualia:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qua...


The Mind-Body Problem

Bunge, M. (2014). The mind–body problem: A psychobiological approach. Elsevier. https://books.google.com/books?id=AnK...


Experiment:
Soon, C. S., Brass, M., Heinze, H. J., & Haynes, J. D. (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Nature neuroscience, 11(5), 543-545. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18...