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    It is not the case that If thinking is identical to or supervenes on neural activity, then spatial properties of that activity are partly constitutive of thought.

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    • 1.Thoughts have content and meaning that remain constant across physically different neural implementations in different brains.
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    • 2.If spatial properties were partly constitutive of thought, identical thoughts could not exist in brains with different spatial architectures.
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    • 3.Causal relevance of spatial properties to neural function does not entail those properties are constitutive of the thought itself.
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    • 1.Neural activity has intrinsic spatial properties (location, distance, topology) that are causally efficacious in cognitive processing.
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    • 2.If a property is causally efficacious in producing a phenomenon, it is partly constitutive of that phenomenon's identity.
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    • 3.Spatial relationships between neural regions (e.g., connectivity patterns) functionally determine information integration and representational content.
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