# What RoboMary Knows **Opening (not a real abstract):** Frank Jackson’s thought experiment about Mary the color scientist is a prime example of an intuition pump, a thought experiment that is not so much a formal argument as a little scenario, or vignette, that has been pumping philosophical intuitions with remarkable vigor since it first appeared in 1982. In fact, so much attention has it attracted over the years that two anthologies of Mariology are in preparation, celebrating and reviewing the twenty years that it has captivated philosophers’ attention.1 Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to investigate the world from a black-and-white room via a black-andwhite television monitor. She specializes in the neurophysiology of vision and acquires, let us suppose, all the physical information there is to obtain about what goes on when we see ripe tomatoes, or the **Authors:** [[Dennett]]