Top Highlights

• The Martian encodings are poised, here and now, to participate in
• in the idea that a V4 neuron (or even a group of V4 neurons or even a whole parietal lobe) might itself be some kind of self-contained locus of thinking.
• First, there is an appeal to the common-sense or coarse-grained role implicitly grasped by normal human agents:
• storage and standard cases of biological memory do not matter because our claim was not one of identity in the first place.
• cognitive processes depend very heavily, in hitherto unexpected ways, on organismically external props and devices and on the structure of the external environment in which cognition takes place.