I am grateful for all the commentators for engaging with the ideas of the target article, and offering comments and critiques to some of The Entangled Brain's central elements (Pessoa, 2022, 2023). I learned quite a bit and appreciate their contributions to the dialogue about how we might best study the brain.
Several commentators shared some of my views and in fact captured related ideas persuasively. For example, Hayden (2023) writes incisively about problems with the arealization hypothesis, namely, the idea that area borders are the most important principle of functional organization. Uddin (2023) even suggests that localization-based accounts of brain function have largely gone out of style. That is certainly not my reading of the current state of the literature and, in all likelihood, not a notion shared by the commentators contributing to this Special Focus who found problems with my...