By the way, if you haven’t read Dennett’s “Real Patterns” then I can recommend it as an excellent explanation of how fuzzily defined, ‘not-always-a-fact-of-the-matter-whether-they’re-present’ patterns, of which folk-psychological states like beliefs and desires are just a special case, can meaningfully find a place in a physicalist universe.
By the way, if you haven’t read Dennett’s “Real Patterns” then I can recommend it as an excellent explanation of how fuzzily defined, ‘not-always-a-fact-of-the-matter-whether-they’re-present’ patterns, of which folk-psychological states like beliefs and desires are just a special case, can meaningfully find a place in a physicalist universe.