Intelligence involves intensionality: An explanatory issue for radical enactivism (again)
Synthese April 1, 2022 Silvano Zipoli Caiani 6 citations
Intelligent behavior requires attributing representational contents to agents, including for basic actions like perceiving affordances. Radical enactivists claim intelligent behaviors can be explained without representational content, but this paper argues that intelligence depends on how purposes and environments are presented to the agent. Therefore, either affordance-related behaviors are not intelligent and can be explained without content, or they are intelligent but require content and modes of presentation. The argument challenges contentless accounts of cognition.