The Human Question

To answer this, try what scientists call an "operational definition" of worship. For an Evangelical, it consists of speaking words, singing songs, etc. For a Catholic in the Latin rite, it consists of adoring the Body, Blood, soul, and diivinity of Christ the Lord. In other words, Evangelical worship is, by Catholic standards, mediocre... even though it may surely be heartfelt. Given that mediocrity, when Catholics comport in the same way to Mary, it looks like doing something in regard to her that should be directed exclusively to God. I think the ecumenical thing to do is to invite an Evangelical to fall down (together with me), prostrate in worship of God... It won't feel right (I predict) because there is no Bodily Presence of the Lord.  So he or she may decline.  In fact I may not feel that it is appropriate, except before Jesus in the Eucharist.

In Frank Jackson's thought experiment, Mary  knows everything a scientist can know about the color blue but has never sensed it.  Later, when she did sense blue, (Jackson points out that) Mary would know something new that she hadn't known before. BUT what would we say if someone gave Mary black&white-only night/day vision goggles and had her walk around the blue-lit world without letting her actually see the blueness of blue things, but while giving her blue detector so that she would be able to respond to blue colors in a manner roughly as adequate as those of us who have been allowed to use our eyes normally? Would she still know what blue is?  (To those of you who would say that, even though knowledge is knowing how to interact, yet she wouldn't know what blue is because her behavior would never be equivalent to that of a blue-seer, I would reply ad hominem, asking whether you think a computer could really act like a human being.  If you think the answer ...