imagine a scientist named Mary
specialized in the psychology of color
she can differentiate between the
electrical signals of red and blue and
can explain their stimuli and effects on
our brain armed with the vast knowledge
of these studies Mary knows everything
there is to know about color she can
detect its presence through simple brain
activity and can explain the different
properties of all the colors in the
visible spectrum it is however in this
seemingly developed understanding that
one aspect may have been overlooked and
that is that Mary has actually never
seen color her whole life she’s lived in
a black and white room
she reads black and white books and her
research is conducted purely on a
factual level this has stagnated her
studies into being purely empirical
based rather than of a conscious bias
and it’s because of this that we can
question if her studies are truly
complete if she were to come into
contact with a red apple experiencing
the color not through numbers but as an
actual experience which she learned
something new if she were to stand in
awe at the Northern Lights marveling and
it stretches of green and purple which
she draw new conclusions these were the
questions philosopher Frank Jackson
asked in the 1980s he saw an answer to
these enigmatic dilemmas questioning
that if Mary already knew all the
physical facts on color but stood to
learn more through her example and seen
color herself could mental states be
explained through physical fact this is
called the knowledge argument and it is
not completely grounded in the realm of
colors every day we experience things we
couldn’t quite explain quantitatively
the love we may feel for our dog the
excitement we may feel at the end of
school and the boredom I’m hopeful you
aren’t feeling right now these are all
examples of the undefinable although
capable of being represented through
numbers these feelings love excitement
and boredom would never be done justice
through spreadsheets or Word documents
they are the here-and-now
that give meaning to our present human
condition music is an example of the
knowledge argument although fully
embodied by ink on a music sheet a song
is never actually brought to life until
it is actually played and it is in this
that it is similar to the color paradox
because Mary did not possess all the
necessary pieces needed to map out music
or color sorry
it can be argued that her lack of
experience with color in itself was a
limiting fact in her study and because
this is the same as I mean we could say
the same thing about a deaf sound
specialist although capable of mapping
out all the different sound waves the
emotion and feeling portrayed by music
would never fully be accounted for and
this is why we could argue that his
studies would never fully be complete to
exemplify the fact that some thing okay
well let’s just start again Beethoven is
an example of a musician that could
never hear any well he could hear he was
he lost his hearing so let’s just start
with that yeah I know terrible okay
thanks okay so Beethoven he although he
seems to be a musician that was deaf
that’s not very true because he already
had hearing he was able to experience
music and then from that he could
remember the love for composition that
he had preserving these emotions proved
detrimental to his future works allowing
him to create the Ninth Symphony without
actually being able to hear a single
thing this goes to prove that the
essential ingredients for music are not
qualitative but actually of a sensory
nature and it is in this that we can see
how important feeling is although the
habit of a terrible musician I pride
myself on not knowing how to read a
single line of music this is true
because instead of focusing on the
strict rhythm and pace of a song I
instead allow myself to interpret this
sound an emotion conveyed by it by not
worrying about what is written I instead
allow myself to listen and since this is
the most important part of music I think
it’s really allowed me to understand the
composers of my pieces it almost becomes
an intimate relationship songs not being
remedies to bad days but actually
difficult discussions derived by
difficult emotions it’s almost
impossible to explain so I think I’m
just gonna have to show you guys so I’m
gonna be playing classical gas
no not Costco gas I’m going to clean
gratitude by I mean to Fani
it
a song that I think my dad may have
already showed you guys so I hope that
doesn’t spoil it but you know we’re just
gonna do it so smooth
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
thank you
specialized in the psychology of color
she can differentiate between the
electrical signals of red and blue and
can explain their stimuli and effects on
our brain armed with the vast knowledge
of these studies Mary knows everything
there is to know about color she can
detect its presence through simple brain
activity and can explain the different
properties of all the colors in the
visible spectrum it is however in this
seemingly developed understanding that
one aspect may have been overlooked and
that is that Mary has actually never
seen color her whole life she’s lived in
a black and white room
she reads black and white books and her
research is conducted purely on a
factual level this has stagnated her
studies into being purely empirical
based rather than of a conscious bias
and it’s because of this that we can
question if her studies are truly
complete if she were to come into
contact with a red apple experiencing
the color not through numbers but as an
actual experience which she learned
something new if she were to stand in
awe at the Northern Lights marveling and
it stretches of green and purple which
she draw new conclusions these were the
questions philosopher Frank Jackson
asked in the 1980s he saw an answer to
these enigmatic dilemmas questioning
that if Mary already knew all the
physical facts on color but stood to
learn more through her example and seen
color herself could mental states be
explained through physical fact this is
called the knowledge argument and it is
not completely grounded in the realm of
colors every day we experience things we
couldn’t quite explain quantitatively
the love we may feel for our dog the
excitement we may feel at the end of
school and the boredom I’m hopeful you
aren’t feeling right now these are all
examples of the undefinable although
capable of being represented through
numbers these feelings love excitement
and boredom would never be done justice
through spreadsheets or Word documents
they are the here-and-now
that give meaning to our present human
condition music is an example of the
knowledge argument although fully
embodied by ink on a music sheet a song
is never actually brought to life until
it is actually played and it is in this
that it is similar to the color paradox
because Mary did not possess all the
necessary pieces needed to map out music
or color sorry
it can be argued that her lack of
experience with color in itself was a
limiting fact in her study and because
this is the same as I mean we could say
the same thing about a deaf sound
specialist although capable of mapping
out all the different sound waves the
emotion and feeling portrayed by music
would never fully be accounted for and
this is why we could argue that his
studies would never fully be complete to
exemplify the fact that some thing okay
well let’s just start again Beethoven is
an example of a musician that could
never hear any well he could hear he was
he lost his hearing so let’s just start
with that yeah I know terrible okay
thanks okay so Beethoven he although he
seems to be a musician that was deaf
that’s not very true because he already
had hearing he was able to experience
music and then from that he could
remember the love for composition that
he had preserving these emotions proved
detrimental to his future works allowing
him to create the Ninth Symphony without
actually being able to hear a single
thing this goes to prove that the
essential ingredients for music are not
qualitative but actually of a sensory
nature and it is in this that we can see
how important feeling is although the
habit of a terrible musician I pride
myself on not knowing how to read a
single line of music this is true
because instead of focusing on the
strict rhythm and pace of a song I
instead allow myself to interpret this
sound an emotion conveyed by it by not
worrying about what is written I instead
allow myself to listen and since this is
the most important part of music I think
it’s really allowed me to understand the
composers of my pieces it almost becomes
an intimate relationship songs not being
remedies to bad days but actually
difficult discussions derived by
difficult emotions it’s almost
impossible to explain so I think I’m
just gonna have to show you guys so I’m
gonna be playing classical gas
no not Costco gas I’m going to clean
gratitude by I mean to Fani
it
a song that I think my dad may have
already showed you guys so I hope that
doesn’t spoil it but you know we’re just
gonna do it so smooth
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
thank you
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