I don't know the bases of Friston's theory of intentionality, but it sounds like it was likely motivated by the notion made popular a decade or so ago that free

I don't know the bases of Friston's theory of intentionality, but it sounds like it was likely motivated by the notion made popular a decade or so ago that free will didn't really exist, that evidence from Functional MRI-based analyses indicated that human action preceded the brain's decision to act. Presumably that idea was fundamental to Friston's suggestion that volition arose only after the arm was already in the act of moving, where the mind's will to move arose as a surprise reaction to the arm NOT already moving. Fortunately the bases for this freaky model of reaction preceding initiative seems to have since been resolved as error -- we improperly interpreted the FMRI signals. I wonder how this resequencing in the mind of cause to once again precede effect has reshaped Friston's theory of perception and free will. Or Clark's. A well written article nonetheless. I'm often impressed that writers can so capably embrace the conceptual models of others without injecting their own doubts or biases, even when the bases for these theories often seem tentative at best.