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Single Idea 4929
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / a. Nature of intentionality
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Full Idea
Dreaming and imagery are striking phenomenological demonstrations that the adult brain can spontaneously and intrinsically produce consciousness and meaning without any direct input from the periphery.
Gist of Idea
Dreams and imagery show the brain can generate awareness and meaning without input
Source
G Edelman / G Tononi (Consciousness: matter becomes imagination [2000], Ch.11)
Book Ref
Edelman,G/Tononi,G: 'Consciousness: how matter becomes imagination' [Penguin 2000], p.136
A Reaction
This offers some support for Searle's claim that brain's produce 'intrinsic' (rather than 'derived') intentionality. Of course, one can have a Humean impressions/ideas theory about how the raw material got there. We SEE meaning in our experiences.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[what exactly is intentionality?]:
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3364
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All mental phenomena contain an object
[Brentano]
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7107
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Intentionality defines, transcends and unites consciousness
[Sartre]
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3465
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Either there is intrinsic intentionality, or everything has it
[Searle]
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3484
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Water flowing downhill can be described as if it had intentionality
[Searle]
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3489
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Intentional phenomena only make sense within a background
[Searle]
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3367
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Both thought and language have intentionality
[Kim]
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2485
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Do intentional states explain our behaviour?
[Fodor]
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15473
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How does anything get outside itself?
[Fodor, by Martin,CB]
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4993
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If a bird captures a worm, we could say its behaviour is 'about' the worm
[Kirk,R]
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11935
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Physical powers like solubility and charge also have directedness
[Molnar]
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6543
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Intentionality comes in degrees
[Lycan]
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6481
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If intentional states are intrinsically about other things, what are their own properties?
[Robinson,H]
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4087
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Intentionalism does not require that all mental states be propositional attitudes
[Crane]
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4095
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Object-directed attitudes like love are just as significant as propositional attitudes
[Crane]
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4623
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Propositional attitudes are not the only intentional states; there is also mental imagery
[Heil]
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4929
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Dreams and imagery show the brain can generate awareness and meaning without input
[Edelman/Tononi]
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15018
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Intentionality is too superficial to appear in the catalogue of ultimate physics
[Sider]
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