Intentionality

In phenomenology an act of intentionality is the process of reaching out to author world and the stimuli in the author world in order to translate it into meaningful experience. Although we are all interconnected we each have our individual ways of perceiving and making sense of our world coloured and shaped by our past. According to the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl an act of intentionality has two foci, what is experienced and how it is experienced – the mode of experiencing. Perception is an active act and contained within the author reaching out to make sense of the author world is interpretation without which the author world would simply be a confusing mass of ground phenomena, even then author would be interpreting this as confusion. The term intentionality in phenomenology can be confusing as it has nothing to do with intention in the everyday sense of the word.