Broadly speaking, a relationship can be seen as the sharing of energy and information flow. For an anthropologist or sociologist or linguist, our mental lives are happening between us. The brain can be seen as an embodied mechanism of energy and information flow. And so we have a within-mind, within the skin-encased body including the skull-encased brain—what we can simply call our “embodied brain.” And we have between-minds that happen in our relationships. These can also be called our inner and our inter minds, the within and between origins of our self, of who we are. The mind happens
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