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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 28 May 2016 07:07:34AM *  -1 points [-]

Yes: is about a kind of knowledge.

The banal truth here is that knowing about a thing doesn't turn you into it.

The significant and contentious claim is that here are certain kinds of knowledge that can only be accessed by instantiating a brain state. The existence of such subjective knowledge leads to a further argument against physicalism.