Put a brain in a jar and expose it only to photos and you’d get the same results. It’s hard to learn what holding a book is like if you’ve never held anything.
I'm not sure I see the utility of this "thought experiment." It's not really provable and not even possible to do. Not to mention highly unethical. I mean just make the embodiment argument instead. But we don't know if embodiment is necessary, or even what kind of body is even necessary.
