ABSTRACT
Mind
Minds are the conscious control systems that guide higher biological agents in their interactions with the world (Searle, 1992). Cognitive dynamics may be described as dynamics of mental states. Mental states with contents, i.e., intentional states, are subjective representations of part of the world as it is, was, or could be, entertained by an individual at a certain time. They exist against a nonrepresentational Background (Searle, 1983, 1992) that allows for their semantics and dynamics.
