<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 28, 2009, Gordon Swobe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">the word consciousness has a sort of mystical new-age connotation that throws them off the track.<br>For that reason I prefer the word intentionality.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Intentionality means doing something with an intention and that means doing something with an aim or a plan. A program is a plan. But perhaps you just mean doing things for a reason. Well, I maintain it is beyond dispute that you, me, computers, everything in the universe does things because of cause and effect OR they don't do things because of cause and effect; and if they don't then those things are by definition random.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div></body></html>