When Mary is released from the room and witnesses other objects that are red like a red car or a red tomato, she’ll realize how inadequate her conception of the mental life of other people has been all along. For example, when someone goes to a store to buy a red tomato, they buy it based off of size, feel and color that would make it ripe and now that Mary has the ability to see red, she now has an understanding of the thought process take people undertake to choose a tomato because Mary can see how red a tomato is which determines its ripeness and can determine for herself why someone decided to choose that particular tomato. Just by being able to see a color allows Mary to understand the thinking process people take and why they have certain experiences behind certain actions. She will now understand something about these people and their mental lives that she would be typically quite unaware of if she was still in the
When Mary is released from the room and witnesses other objects that are red like a red car or a red tomato, she’ll realize how inadequate her conception of the mental life of other people has been all along. For example, when someone goes to a store to buy a red tomato, they buy it based off of size, feel and color that would make it ripe and now that Mary has the ability to see red, she now has an understanding of the thought process take people undertake to choose a tomato because Mary can see how red a tomato is which determines its ripeness and can determine for herself why someone decided to choose that particular tomato. Just by being able to see a color allows Mary to understand the thinking process people take and why they have certain experiences behind certain actions. She will now understand something about these people and their mental lives that she would be typically quite unaware of if she was still in the