PHLC95H3 Chapter Notes -Intentional Stance, Optimal Design
Document Summary
Austria1 a thing is an intentional system only in relation to the strategies of someone who is trying to explain and predict its behaviour. System is composed of larger or smaller functional parts. Predictions involve the assumption that each part will function properly. Generally adopted when predicting about mechanical object behaviour. Essentially, predictions are about system"s functional design irrespective of physical constitution or conditions. Physical stance: predictions based on actual physical state of the object worked out by applying knowledge of the laws of nature. Intentional stance: prediction based on the assumption that the system"s rationality is relative to a number of things. Predictions are based on one"s view that the thing is an intentional system. Ascription of certain information, supposition that the system is directed by certain goals, and lastly, working to take the most reasonable action. Info possessed is beliefs and desires. chess playing computer- artificial rationality.
