[Wittrs] Re: Original and derived intentionality
- From: "BruceD" <blroadies@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:23:28 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "SWM" <SWMirsky@...> wrote:
> Thus understanding, in this sense, slides into intentionality,
which, as you say elsewhere, means not only knowing (as in a thermostat)
but knowing that you know, and even pretending that you don't know, as
in a human (and other animals). And, of course, as you have repeatedly
pointed out, on this List we dismiss any any notion of disembodied
spirits. So, while we say " a person is intentional" we mean an embodied
person, a person with a physical body, brain and all that.
Then, it seems, you want to "account for intentionality." And by
account, I take you to mean to point out the brain mechanism that are
part and parcel of intentional act. So you write..
> this could be accounted for via a system of linked associations that
includes
> a multi-layer complex of representational networks.
about which neurology has more to say day by day, but, I'm afraid
without clarifying the relationship between the brain and the person,
e.g., "these are the networks that allow a person to act intentionally."
In other words, if our account of intentionality is the firing of
multi-layer complex of representational networks then the person is
superfluous. But now we have a brain that is intentional and have
returned to a vitalistic biology.
bruce
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