Intentionality and Attentionality

'Intentionality' is a Theory of Consciousness that Brentano originates, and Husserl further develops. Instead of the traditional construal of Consciousness as a passive receptacle of its objects, Intentionality proposes that Consciousness actively aims at its objects. At one point, Husserl argues that Intention is more fundamental than Attention, on the basis of his analysis that in acts of Attention, there is still Consciousness of objects that are at the periphery of what is the center of Attention, and that Consciousness still has an Intentional relation towards them. Hence, Consciousness is more pervasively Intentional than Attentional. But, it can be responded that the difference between center and periphery is only a difference of degree of Attention, not one of Attention vs. non-Attention, so Husserl fails to rule out an Attentional Theory of Consciousness. On the other hand, the Evolvemental analysis of Individual Conduct demonstrates how Attention is more fundamental than Intention. On that analysis, all Conduct is fundamentally a process of self-variation, guided by Attention, from which Intention abstracts the projected terminal phase of the process, to help set it in motion. And, once the movement has begun, the Intention has been left behind, while Attention continues to guide what is being done. So, an examination of how the two are involved in Conduct demonstrates that Consciousness is pervasively Attentional, and only intermittently Intentional.