OK, we'll come back.
So now we're going to talk about the network of intentionality and the background.
So we just talked about intentional, intentional states, Singler states, but they actually come in
the network.
And that's what we want to talk about now and also the background upon which the network lies.
So there is a network of intentional states.
They don't come as isolated units.
So you might intent to drive to work, for example.
But you cannot do that unless you also believe that you have a work, that you have a car, that you
have a license, that you know how to drive, that there is that your work is put in driving while driving
distance.
So you are approaching us and living in Sweden and so on.
So there's a lot of other beliefs and maybe hopes and desires and so on, a lot of other intentional
states that needs to be there for you to actually have this very single, intentional state that you
will drive to work.
So what we're seeing is that you're actually form a network of intentional states and they are tied
together in different connections here.
So you will never have a single intentional state in its own.
You always have them in the complex and that is what is called a network.
Right.
Then there is this other very interesting phenomena, which is called the background usually now.
But actually, this was also something that Wittgenstein talked about quite early.
So here's what Wittgenstein said in its in its later kind of possible works, and that was made public
after he died.
But he talked about the hurlyburly with a typical Wittgensteinian quote here.
So how could you remember he would be described surely, surely only by sketching the actions of a variety
of humans as they are all mixed up together.
What determines our judgment are concepts and reactions is not what one man is doing now, an individual
action, but the whole hurly-burly of human actions, the background against which we see any action.
So what is there to you that you wouldn't even understand in action if you already both have all those
intentional states that are talked about by?
You also need to have a lot of just background knowledge, what it is to be a human, what it is to
have two legs and two arms and head and two eyes instead of having four eyes and two that goes out through
your ear so you can actually kind of see what you are.
So all those kind of things that we are not so we aren't bats, for example.
We don't have a sonar so that we can actually measure exact distances and so on.
And if we had that, then we would have a completely different network sorry background that we are
all our internal states will be placed upon.
So what we're saying is that we have this complete hurly-burly of all mixed up activities that is already
going on.
And it's just it just because we had that, that we are able to understand singular events and singular
actions or single happenings.
So singular concepts or propositional content.
And this is called the background.
So if we have this network of intentional states, they will always be placed upon a much deeper background,
experience, background, phenomenas.
So if I'm playing the piano, I might think, for example, about what I'm going to play, which chords
I'm going to play and so on.
But if I'm quite experienced, I would probably not think about exactly how my fingers needs to move
to be able to hit that note and so on.
That will be part of my background and not something I will have intentional states about.
So it's not infinite.
If you follow out the threads of you will find actually non intentional states that we don't have any
propositional content about.
They are just our backgrounds.
So maybe that makes us able to have those intentional states.
So I won't, for example, believe when I'm driving in my car to work, I won't actually have a belief
that I can actually grip the steering wheel.
That is just something I take for granted.
And those underlying abilities that we take for granted is what we call the background.
OK, and that is also a very important role in the explanation of what is going on in our minds when
we are conceptualizing anything and also later on in the meta analysis that we are trying to do right
now.
So probably come back to that as well.
The next thing we want to talk about is collective intentionality.
Also very, very important.
So see you that.