The knowledge that Mary lacks, according to Jackson, is knowledge about . . .

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Jackson's thought experiment with Mary, the color scientist who has never experienced color, is used to argue that there are facts about human conscious experience—such as what it is like to see red—that cannot be captured by physicalist accounts of the mind. Mary has all the physical information about color vision but lacks knowledge of what it is like to experience color, which is knowledge about the experience of others.

The Knowledge That Mary Lacks, According to Jackson, Is Knowledge