You are so right! Both circular and if you follow through in a cartesian mode you end up with an infinite stack of “representations” all the way up toward the t

You are so right! Both circular and if you follow through in a cartesian mode you end up with an infinite stack of “representations” all the way up toward the two neurons that “represent” your two grandmothers. Both Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature) and Daniel Dennett (almost any of his works) did us a big favor by demolishing representational dualism—-mind vs brain.