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Only mother nature exhibits original intentionality

Humans do not exhibit original intentionality (or to use Searle's terms, intrinsic intentionality); rather their intentionality is derived from genes. In turn, genes have secondary intentionality. The regress ends, however: with Mother Nature.

Daniel Dennett, 1987.



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