Intentional

What does intentional mean in the context of my question?

Consciousness and Intentionality

Siewert, Charles, “Consciousness and Intentionality”, in Edward N. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available at:https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/consciousness-intentionality (Accessed: 25th November 2021)

  • ‘Consciousness is the feature that makes states count as experiences in a certain sense.’
  • A person’s fall of a branch – NOT

‘It is the feeling of falling that is paradigmatically conscious if anything is.’

  • ‘Intentionality is the aboutness or directedness or reference of mind (or states of mind) to things, objects, states of affairs, events’

Intentional

Collins (2022) ‘Definition of ‘intentional’. Available at: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/intentional (Accessed: 25th November 2021)

·       ‘Something that is intentional is deliberate.’

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