Full Idea
The fundamental problems of misrepresentation and error have dogged physicalist reductions of intentionality.
Clarification
'Intentionality' is the capacity of minds to think about things
Gist of Idea
The problems of misrepresentation and error have dogged physicalist reductions of intentionality
Source
Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 3.26)
Book Reference
Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.89
A Reaction
If footprints or tree-rings are the model for reductions of intentionality, there doesn't seem much scope in them for giving false information, except by some freak event.