PHIL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intentionality

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 346
• Professor: All

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Response: this reply in effect trivializes the project of sai by redefining it as whatever artificially produces and explains cognition. Sai thesis mental processes are computational processes over formally defined elements. Only something with the casual powers of perception, action, understanding etc. could have intentionality. What matters about brain operations is not the formal shadow cast by the sequence of synapses but rather the actual properties of the sequences. Mind is to brain as program is to hardware equation breaks down at several points. The brain"s causal capacity to produce intentionality cannot consist in its instantiating a computer program, since for any program you like it is possible for something to instantiate that program and still not have any mental states. The mind as software of the brain by ned black: part 2 intelligence and. Intelligence - capacity to solve, figure out, decide, and the like. There are genuine mental states that have no aboutness.