IntentAgents

Folk Psychology Statements

• "Janine took her umbrella because she believed it was going to rain."
• "Michael worked hard because he wanted to posses a PhD."

• A system whose behaviour can be predicted by the method of attributing belief, desires, and rational acumen.
• All bodies can be described by intentional stance, but it doesn't make sense for those systems we know sufficiently enough about that can be modeled in a simple manner. The more we know about a system the less we have to rely on intentional behaviour. However some complex systems cannot easily resolve a diagnostic query.

Dennett, D. C., 1987. The intentional stance, MIT Press.

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