Naturalization of intentionality

Naturalization of intentionality means understanding things that are done on purpose by thinking about them in terms of things that happen naturally in the world. For example, a human might make a plan to do something and then do it, on purpose. We can try and understand how that decision was made by thinking about how animals, like birds and squirrels, change their behavior according to the environment they are in. This is a way of trying to figure out why the person made the decision by understanding the natural forces that influenced the decision.