> Knowledge from around 3000 bc to 1580 or so just burned
If it makes you feel any better, it’s likely a LOT less time that that. They didn’t develop their complex social culture until ~750BC & the earliest sculptural examples of Maya script are ~300BC.
It’s extremely unlikely any books the Spanish burned dated back until then but that’s the likely earliest they would have been.
Still a massive cultural crime & attempted genocide tho
Like most arguments of this type it assumes the conclusion then acts like it’s terms don’t do that.
If Mary knows everything about red then she also knows what seeing it is like. If she doesn’t… then she doesn’t. They try to have it both ways by hand waving & hiding behind colloquial language but it still comes down to that in the end.
The thought experiment just reveals the writers own biases & limitations of thought rather than be revelatory in any way.
In fact this paper is often used by opponents of qualia as demonstrating why they are nonsensical & incoherent.
Got to say, I agree. Daniel Dennett has his flaws but his argument that this type of thought experiment is a category error & that qualia do not exist and are incompatible with what are basic facts we know about neuroscience should have ended this years ago.
That is literally pronounced “boleevud”. Can you guess why?
"Bollywood" was invented & popularized in Bombay-based film trade journals in the 1960s & 1970s. It was an explicit reference *by the Indian film industry there to Hollywood. It was additionally a play on “Tollywood" for the Tollygunge-based cinema of West Bengal, which had been called that since the 30s.
The oldest is the French film industry (Gaumont still exists & is the oldest studio still in operation), closely followed by the British film industry (notably Ealing Studios, still the oldest continuously working film facility too).
Hell, the earliest American film industry was in Brooklyn. Hollywood happened initially due to it fleeing to the west coast to avoid patents (ironically) and later the cheaper land.