abstract:The knowledge argument (also known as Mary's room or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982) and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986). The argument is intended to motivate what is often called the "Knowledge Argument" against physicalism — the view that the universe, including all that is mental, is entirely physical.
There is no argument that scientific knowledge can and does stand on its own regardless of individuals, if they can be proved unerringly to be based on strong foundations and methodologies.
In the essay, entitled "As We May Think, " Bush made the argument that scientists needed to concentrate on making knowledge more accessible, and described some of the methods and devices we might use to do so.
What Europe needs more, goes this argument, is a consistent set of regulations and principles, to be applied by local supervisors with local knowledge.