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@JJVentrella But you can also see how brain activity *just is* you thinking and you deciding, when that activity represents person-level cognitive elements like beliefs and desires and intentions
@bonnittaroy@ThouArtThat@JJVentrella We don't have any coherent notion of matter sans any general notion of mind. That's the issue I'd say. One doesn't have to do backflips to say mind with embodied matter; it's demonstrably what we are, before conceptualizing a reduction or hypothetical removal of the interior.
@dansmath Thanks! They whole Tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb https://t.co/TknHUk8WV4 can be constructed by this substitution rule, right? I guess next one can think if the tetra and octa can be replaced by piles of spheres with close packing and make it work. @JJVentrella
EARTH #245 by Jeffrey Ventrella (@jjventrella)—(whose artwork on @fx_hash_ animates a rarer Earth: one more protean than ours): https://t.co/KhW4mgJjYz