> I still wonder how many of these people have read Dennett's "The Intentional Stance", which holds that the best way to think about "intention" is as an explan

> I still wonder how many of these people have read Dennett's "The Intentional Stance", which holds that the best way to think about "intention" is as an explanatory model, not a mechanism. That is, we can say that the dog "behaves as if it has the intention to get inside" without making any claim about the internal state of the dog. That's also a way to frame evolution and literally all of biology.