ABSTRACT
Human beings engage in purposive behaviour. We do things for reasons and act with ends in view. Thus, we walk to the store intending to buy milk. If asked en route by a friend whom we meet on the street why we are walking towards the store, the sensible and correct answer is the true one: ‘To buy milk.’ If our friend is an amusing sort and begins to regale us with jokes and stories so engagingly that we forget where we had been going and why, then we may find ourselves befuddled, forgetting temporarily what we had been doing and trying to recollect the purpose of our being on the street. If we really cannot recall, then we will no longer walk towards the store, for we shall have no purpose motivating us to do so. When we do recall our purpose, then we resume our activity with a smile upon our face.
