It may be that because how the brain evolved representations might be too diffusely encoded to be reverse engineered, but that is a contingent biological fact rather than a philosophical difficulty.
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FWIW, Dennett does (or at least did) consider thermostats to have intention, and I am willing to go there. But I don't want to drag you into this morass unless you are interested in going there.
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Well the question would be where you draw the line, or if you think intentionality is continuously graded. If you grant it to the thermostat, what mechanisms are *not* intentional, and why not?
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The retinotopic maps in V1 cortex are arguably intentional but, like the bimetallic strip, they are arguably too mechanistic to count. There’s a sense that a representation has to be sufficiently separated that it can be wrong, & involves interpretation, not just bottom-up flow
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