Re: [FRIAM] Intentionality is the mark of the vital

2006-07-18 Thread Phil Henshaw
Russ, I think switching to a subject that's simpler to model, (in this case studying computers as a stand-in for studying brains) works well for lots of things, when the new subject is an approximation of the original. Are brains and computers comparable subjects? I think we don't model brains

Re: [FRIAM] Intentionality is the mark of the vital

2006-07-18 Thread Jochen Fromm
I must admit I was not fully aware of the philosophical background for intentionality http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intentionality/ Maybe I confused intentionality with intentions. I am not sure what intentionality really means. Nevertheless, the aspect of intentionality as