Adrian Wieczorek

The Hard Problem of Intentionality for Radical Enactive Cognition

Synthese April 21, 2026 Adrian Wieczorek

Abstract Radical Enactive Cognition challenges teleosemantic representationalism while proposing a naturalistic, content-free account of basic intentionality – “Ur-intentionality” – based solely on teleofunctional resources such as information-as-covariance and natural selection, a view known as Teleosemiotics. This paper argues that this appropriation is insufficient to ground content-free...