intentionality

• Nick Herbert, a member of Berkeley's Consciousness Theory Group in the 1970s and now a seminar leader at the Esalen Institute, goes even further, arguing that consciousness itself must be considered a "fundamental force" of the universe, "elemental," on a par with such irreducible phenomena as gravity, light, mass, and electrical charge Searle takes a similar view: "Consciousness and intentionality are intrinsic and ineliminable," he claims. —  Omni: October 1993
• Socialization (a more biblical idea goes by the name of "community") takes intentionality, the kind I myself struggle to initiate and experience in my own socialized experience. —  WORLD Magazine | Community
• That is, you shift blame for unintended consequences by subscribing to a highly stringent theory of intentionality - of the objects of thought. —  Crooked Timber
• Otherwise, patience, prayer and intentionality is sufficient. —  Church Central News
• I've merely pointed out that the salient characteristics of the mind, such as intentionality, qualia, free will, incorrigibility, restricted access, continuity of self through time, and unity of consciousness (the 'binding problem') seem to be impossible to explain materialistically. —  Evolution News & Views

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