[naasking]

> I can't see how this result proves anything. Consider the analogous experiment of "Mary learns to cycle by reading books". Surely she can learn all the physics behind cycling without truly knowing how to cycle, and one could similarly conclude that there is something beyond the physical mind behind this skill.

This is indeed one of the standard responses to Mary's Room, where experiences like "redness" are not actually knowledge but are an "ability". So Mary doesn't actually "learn" anything new technically, but she acquires a new ability to experience redness when exposed to it for the first time.