It involves a girl named Mary who grows up in an all-black-and-white room, but over the years learns everything she needs to know about how color works from books on neurophysiology, vision, and electromagnetism. If one day he went out and finally saw colors for the first time, would he learn anything new? A physicalist would say, “No, the mental states of understanding color are already related to the physical states in his brain.” The physicalist would argue that he is not learning anything new because he has already completely learned the concept of color. But intuitively, most people would say that Mary would have learned something new. He would finally be able to experience what it is like to experience color and take part in the overwhelming qualia. A functionalist might step in and understand this as a qualia represented as a newly experienced functional state that can relate to other functional states already created through book learning. If functionalism is correct in this account and there is some new state that exists outside of the brain states that already existed, then the standard physicalist account must be