Investigating the world

Firstly let’s define the terms of the title: intentionality and Searle general position according to what Ronald McIntyre [ii] said in the intro of his article. Intentionality is the apparently relational property wherein certain mental states (e.g. perceptions and beliefs) are characterized as being ‘of’ or ‘about’ objects of various sorts, especially extra-mental things and states of affairs. Searle is a physicalist but not a reductionist [iii] . For him, Intentionality is an ‘intrinsic’ feature of certain mental states but cannot ultimately be explained away. However, ‘Intentional states are both caused by and realized in the structure of the brain’. Also Intentionality is crucial for developing a theory of mind , including belief, perception, intentional action, causality, meaning, and reference. Especially here in this post our intention is to understand, from McIntyre, the relation between Husserl and Searle. Husserl called intentionality ‘the principal theme of phenom...

John Searle refutes both dualism and materialism to bring biological naturalism where mind, as a biological phenomenon, is part of the nature. He says, both, dualism and materialism have true and false arguments so he focus on what he considers true. He preserves the two main ways: everything is physical and a part of it is mental. The biological naturalism follows the steps: 1.       We cannot deny that consciousness exists. Materialism says consciousness is an illusion but when one thinks in consciousness he knows he is conscious. Therefore, consciousness is real and it even can be irreducible. 2.       We don’t know all the events that happen in our brain yet; either our vision or why we feel pain. However, we can track our vision processes in the brain and find out the nervous that can cause a vision. Similarly, the consciousness can be a process that is caused somewhere in the neurons such as the function of the "high level ...