Dennett

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    What makes some internal feature of a thing a representation could only its role in regulating the behavior of an intentional system.
    —Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)

    To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.
    —Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)