N euroQ uantology | September 2006 | Vol. 4 | Issue 3 | Page 222-239 Globus G. Q uantum Intentionality ISSN 1303 5150 www.neuroquantology.com 222 Men Who Made a New Science Quantum Intentionality 1 Gordon Globus Abstract Freeman’s naturalization of intentionality, based in classical neurophysics, and Vitiello’s quantum thermofield theoretical formulation of intentionality are presented. Their collabor ative work is also discussed. A revised neuroquantological account of intentionality is formulated within the thermofield framework.This account is applied to semiotics. Key W ords : intentionality, monads, neurophysics, semiotics N euroQ uantology 2006; 4: 222-239 Corresponding author : 1 Gordon Globus Address: 2990 Z urich C our t. Laguna Beach, C A 92651, U SA. Tel: +949 759 9515 (office). e-mail: ggglobus@ aol.com Polysemous ‘Intentionality’ T he term ‘intentionality’ has multiple incompatible meanings (a symptom that attracts the deconstructionist eye). In quotidian use, intentionality means a plan of action. “I intend to take my vacation in Ayvalik this year.” T he philosophical use of intentionality goes back to the medieval Scholastics. The etymology derives from the Latin intend re, which is literally a stretching-toward. The term also has the connotations of pointing-to (since we stretch toward the object when we point to it) and aiming (when we stretch toward a goal). In Brentano’s (1973/1874) hands intentionality comes to mean conscious-of … . In its intentional character, consciousness is always “about” something or other, “of” this and that. Here intentionality refers to