Intentional Essay – FQXi 2017 Essay Contest

Abstract: Assumptions about what is a theory and what is a mathematical model are

considered related to the question How can mindless mathematical laws give rise to

aims and intentions?”. Theory cannot be reduced to a mathematical model and requires

conceptualization. So aims and intensions arise from the concepts, not the mathematics.

From this the question of whether we have the appropriate mathematical tools to model

aims and intensions is considered.

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