WEBVTT 00:09.550 --> 00:10.600 OK, we'll come back. 00:11.050 --> 00:15.000 So now we're going to talk about the network of intentionality and the background. 00:15.700 --> 00:21.250 So we just talked about intentional, intentional states, Singler states, but they actually come in 00:21.250 --> 00:21.730 the network. 00:21.730 --> 00:27.100 And that's what we want to talk about now and also the background upon which the network lies. 00:28.430 --> 00:30.220 So there is a network of intentional states. 00:30.220 --> 00:32.110 They don't come as isolated units. 00:34.630 --> 00:37.780 So you might intent to drive to work, for example. 00:39.670 --> 00:50.020 But you cannot do that unless you also believe that you have a work, that you have a car, that you 00:50.020 --> 00:57.520 have a license, that you know how to drive, that there is that your work is put in driving while driving 00:57.520 --> 00:57.990 distance. 00:58.000 --> 01:00.840 So you are approaching us and living in Sweden and so on. 01:01.180 --> 01:08.590 So there's a lot of other beliefs and maybe hopes and desires and so on, a lot of other intentional 01:08.590 --> 01:14.260 states that needs to be there for you to actually have this very single, intentional state that you 01:14.260 --> 01:15.220 will drive to work. 01:16.420 --> 01:23.230 So what we're seeing is that you're actually form a network of intentional states and they are tied 01:23.230 --> 01:25.060 together in different connections here. 01:26.800 --> 01:32.770 So you will never have a single intentional state in its own. 01:33.010 --> 01:37.960 You always have them in the complex and that is what is called a network. 01:38.650 --> 01:38.980 Right. 01:40.180 --> 01:46.720 Then there is this other very interesting phenomena, which is called the background usually now. 01:47.050 --> 01:51.550 But actually, this was also something that Wittgenstein talked about quite early. 01:52.480 --> 01:59.890 So here's what Wittgenstein said in its in its later kind of possible works, and that was made public 01:59.890 --> 02:00.640 after he died. 02:01.180 --> 02:06.300 But he talked about the hurlyburly with a typical Wittgensteinian quote here. 02:06.670 --> 02:14.350 So how could you remember he would be described surely, surely only by sketching the actions of a variety 02:14.350 --> 02:17.270 of humans as they are all mixed up together. 02:17.590 --> 02:25.540 What determines our judgment are concepts and reactions is not what one man is doing now, an individual 02:25.540 --> 02:31.780 action, but the whole hurly-burly of human actions, the background against which we see any action. 02:32.230 --> 02:38.380 So what is there to you that you wouldn't even understand in action if you already both have all those 02:38.380 --> 02:40.690 intentional states that are talked about by? 02:40.690 --> 02:46.810 You also need to have a lot of just background knowledge, what it is to be a human, what it is to 02:47.080 --> 02:53.440 have two legs and two arms and head and two eyes instead of having four eyes and two that goes out through 02:53.440 --> 02:57.880 your ear so you can actually kind of see what you are. 02:58.210 --> 03:03.250 So all those kind of things that we are not so we aren't bats, for example. 03:03.250 --> 03:08.950 We don't have a sonar so that we can actually measure exact distances and so on. 03:09.730 --> 03:14.470 And if we had that, then we would have a completely different network sorry background that we are 03:14.500 --> 03:17.320 all our internal states will be placed upon. 03:17.920 --> 03:25.390 So what we're saying is that we have this complete hurly-burly of all mixed up activities that is already 03:25.390 --> 03:25.990 going on. 03:25.990 --> 03:33.880 And it's just it just because we had that, that we are able to understand singular events and singular 03:33.880 --> 03:36.000 actions or single happenings. 03:36.040 --> 03:38.890 So singular concepts or propositional content. 03:42.130 --> 03:43.900 And this is called the background. 03:45.370 --> 03:52.450 So if we have this network of intentional states, they will always be placed upon a much deeper background, 03:53.050 --> 03:55.950 experience, background, phenomenas. 03:57.130 --> 04:02.560 So if I'm playing the piano, I might think, for example, about what I'm going to play, which chords 04:02.560 --> 04:03.730 I'm going to play and so on. 04:03.850 --> 04:08.800 But if I'm quite experienced, I would probably not think about exactly how my fingers needs to move 04:08.800 --> 04:10.630 to be able to hit that note and so on. 04:10.840 --> 04:15.140 That will be part of my background and not something I will have intentional states about. 04:16.630 --> 04:18.430 So it's not infinite. 04:19.330 --> 04:25.450 If you follow out the threads of you will find actually non intentional states that we don't have any 04:25.450 --> 04:26.980 propositional content about. 04:26.980 --> 04:28.840 They are just our backgrounds. 04:28.840 --> 04:32.470 So maybe that makes us able to have those intentional states. 04:32.920 --> 04:39.010 So I won't, for example, believe when I'm driving in my car to work, I won't actually have a belief 04:39.010 --> 04:41.470 that I can actually grip the steering wheel. 04:41.500 --> 04:43.690 That is just something I take for granted. 04:45.130 --> 04:49.960 And those underlying abilities that we take for granted is what we call the background. 04:52.780 --> 05:03.250 OK, and that is also a very important role in the explanation of what is going on in our minds when 05:03.250 --> 05:09.070 we are conceptualizing anything and also later on in the meta analysis that we are trying to do right 05:09.070 --> 05:09.390 now. 05:10.330 --> 05:12.140 So probably come back to that as well. 05:12.640 --> 05:15.610 The next thing we want to talk about is collective intentionality. 05:15.610 --> 05:17.670 Also very, very important. 05:18.250 --> 05:19.030 So see you that.