Table 1.

The main conceptual features of the aboutness’ and directedness’ aspects of intentionality.

	The aboutness aspect	The directedness aspect
Design	About something	Toward something
Function	Being in the world	Towards the world
Phenomenology	Presence	Motility
Physiology	Homoeostasis	Reward
Micro-intentionality	Autopoiesis	Tropism
Macro-intentionality	We-intentionality	Joint-intentionality
Ego/allo-centrism	Ego-centric	Allo-centric
Information Flow	Bottom-up	Top-down
Representations	Production of representations	Use of representations
Conscious level	Mostly non-conscious	Mostly conscious
The Self	Me	I
Causality	Predisposing – Distal Factors	Accelerating – Proximal factors