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"You cannot know what it is like to taste Marmite unless you've tasted it - even if you knew everything physical about what happens in a person when they taste Marmite." Is this true?
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"You cannot know what it is like to taste Marmite unless you've tasted it - even if you knew everything physical about what happens in a person when they taste Marmite." Is this true? Does it have any implications for the question of whether the mind is physical? In this essay I shall attempt to show that you cannot know what it is like to taste Marmite unless you have tasted it, even if you knew everything physical that happened to a person when they taste Marmite according to modern day physics. I will then discuss the implications of this as to whether the mind is physical. To begin with, I shall explain what I mean by knowledge. In this case I shall be using Descarte's condition that if something is clearly and distinctly perceived, we can say to have knowledge of it. I shall however be going further by assuming...
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