作为反物理主义论证之一的黑白玛丽思想实验一直受到物理主义者的批判。丹尼特则指出,大部分批判者并没有注意思想实验背后所隐含的错误直觉:第一,存着无法言说的现象属性;第二,了解现象属性只能通过第一人称。在此基础上,丹尼特提出了一个机器人玛丽版本的思想实验,以证明玛丽知道所有的物理事实,即使面对色彩体验也不感到惊奇,因而物理主义是正确的。 Black and white Mary’s thought experiment, one of the anti-physicalist arguments, has always been criticized by the physicists. Dennett pointed out that most critics did not pay attention to the false intuitions behind ideological experiments: first, there are unspoken phenomenological phenomena; second, understanding phenomenal attributes can only pass the first person. On this basis, Dannett put forward a thought experiment on the version of the robot Mary to prove that Mary knew all the physical facts and did not feel surprised even in the face of the color experience. Therefore, physicalism was correct.