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by naasking 761 days ago
> Mary doesn't have all of the objective third person facts, only the ones that can be conveyed to her academically.

The premise of the argument is that Mary has all of the facts, and you can even imagine that she has a super powerful computer accessible to her to perform any calculations needed. The goal is to point out that it still seems implausible that Mary could infer knowledge of the experience of redness despite having an unbounded set of dry facts about physics and biology, because to most people, qualitative experience seems like knowledge of a different kind.

That said, you're sort of on the path towards Dennett's response.