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The Intentionality of Financial Transaction Machines

A draft note exploring the question whether the design of a financial transaction machine would benefit from making it do intentional rule following.

The best way to understand intentional notions like belief and epistemic notions like counterfactuals is to work with useful examples. Moreover, it helps a lot to consider hypothetical designs for machines for which intentional concepts are appropriate in their design process and in understanding what they do.

I contend that a good way to understand intentional concepts is to conceptually design machines that are best described intentionally and also must use them in deciding what to do. In other words we need to know what intentional entities are good for.

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