In order to objectively approach intentions and other aspects of mental functioning - certainly to the point of contemplating equations - it would be good to follow Sean Carroll’s suggestion in "The Big Picture" that good science “needs to be completely open to the actual operation of the world”. Such openness readily confronts phenomena that seriously challenge the scientific or materialist vision of the mind, and as such the basis for an essay contest like this one. This article considers some unusual but accepted behavioral conundrums as well as the unfolding “missing heritability” problem.
Ted Christopher