And how does that sort of anthropomorphization explain anything?
The answer to this is a major theme of Dennett’s book “Intuition Pumps...” Which isn’t to say that I understood the answer when he wrote the book, but I did get the impression that a large number of dynamic systems, especially living or computationally driven systems, are more effectively predicted by theories using what they “want” than by theories that do not use such abstractions.
The answer to this is a major theme of Dennett’s book “Intuition Pumps...” Which isn’t to say that I understood the answer when he wrote the book, but I did get the impression that a large number of dynamic systems, especially living or computationally driven systems, are more effectively predicted by theories using what they “want” than by theories that do not use such abstractions.