[Revised entry by Martine Nida-Rümelin and Donnchadh O Conaill on March 1, 2024.
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The knowledge argument aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It rests on the idea that someone who has complete physical knowledge about another conscious being might yet lack knowledge about how it feels to have the experiences of that being. It is one of the most discussed arguments against physicalism….

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