http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html
"H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82"
by Benedict Carey
December 4, 2008
The New York Times
The article remarks that mechanical learning (know-how) and factual learning, such as names, dates, etc (knowledge-that) are handled by two different systems in the brain. What relevance does this have to the philosophical contention that these two types of knowledge are categorically distinct and that neither one is reducible to the other?
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