The categorical distinction between physical agents (thinkers) and thought patterns can be dissolved: patterns themselves can be the agent, with the body as scratchpad

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Minds are patterns that ensoul somatic embodiments, of the same non-physical kind (but not degree) as patterns guiding simple physical structuresclaim0.812
  Core ontological claim unifying triangle-geometry patterns with living minds on a single continuum.
• Patterns can be seen as active agents in the sense-making process.claim0.802
  Central speculative claim blurring the line between data and algorithms.
• Patterns capture knowledge beyond the individual.claim0.781
  Why technologists love Alexander; patterns as mechanism for sharing and reusing design knowledge.
• The conceptual distinctions between mind and body are artificial, and developmental biology and behavioral science should be unified.claim0.777
  Calls for consilience across disciplines.
• The simple fact that intelligent agents are collectives and do not continue unchanged fulfills a necessary requirement for an open-ended evolution of intelligence.claim0.777
  Connects collective intelligence to evolutionary potential.
• Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.773
  Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
• Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.772
• Can Binary Categories Of Cognition Be Dissolved Byquestion0.771